Ritual Structures In Chicana Fiction

Author : Helane Androne
Publisher : Springer
Page : 134 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-06
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781137588548

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Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction by Helane Androne Pdf

This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. It suggests that religious, spiritual, linguistic and political symbolisms reveal rites that structure narrative performances of coping with and healing from trauma. Helane Androne examines these rites of spirit, service, and story as they occur in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God, Denise Chávez’s Face of An Angel, and Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo. Beginning with the implications of Gloria Anzaldúa’s spiritual vision of Chicana identity alongside structural principles of ritual criticism, this study extends the discourse about the impact of the sacred in Chicana fiction. an>

Author : Helane Adams Androne
Publisher : Palgrave Macmillan
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2024-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1349930067

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Ritual Structures in Chicana Fiction by Helane Adams Androne Pdf

This book argues for the necessary and further examination of the sacred as it is ritualized within Chicana fiction. It suggests that religious, spiritual, linguistic and political symbolisms reveal rites that structure narrative performances of coping with and healing from trauma. Helane Androne examines these rites of spirit, service, and story as they occur in Ana Castillo’s So Far From God, Denise Chávez’s Face of An Angel, and Sandra Cisneros’ Caramelo. Beginning with the implications of Gloria Anzaldúa’s spiritual vision of Chicana identity alongside structural principles of ritual criticism, this study extends the discourse about the impact of the sacred in Chicana fiction. an>

Author : Patrick Sullivan
Publisher : University Press of Colorado
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2020-12-01
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9781607329305

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Sixteen Teachers Teaching by Patrick Sullivan Pdf

Sixteen Teachers Teaching is a warmly personal, full-access tour into the classrooms and teaching practices of sixteen distinguished two-year college English professors. Approximately half of all basic writing and first-year composition classes are now taught at two-year colleges, so the perspectives of English faculty who teach at these institutions are particularly valuable for our profession. This book shows us how a group of acclaimed teachers put together their classes, design reading and writing assignments, and theorize their work as writing instructors. All of these teachers have spent their careers teaching multiple sections of writing classes each semester or term, so this book presents readers with an impressive—and perhaps unprecedented—abundance of pedagogical expertise, teaching knowledge, and classroom experience. Sixteen Teachers Teaching is a book filled with joyfulness, wisdom, and pragmatic advice. It has been designed to be a source of inspiration for high school and college English teachers as they go about their daily work in the classroom. Contributors: Peter Adams, Jeff Andelora, Helane Adams Androne, Taiyon J. Coleman, Renee DeLong, Kathleen Sheerin DeVore, Jamey Gallagher, Shannon Gibney, Joanne Baird Giordano, Brett Griffiths, Holly Hassel, Darin Jensen, Jeff Klausman, Michael C. Kuhne, Hope Parisi, and Howard Tinberg

Author : Marinella Rodi-Risberg
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2022-03-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783030966195

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Intersectional Trauma in American Women Writers' Incest Novels from the 1990s by Marinella Rodi-Risberg Pdf

This book explores the intersections of sexualized, gendered, and racialized traumas in five US novels about father-daughter incest from the 1990s. It examines how incest can be connected to wider past and present structural oppression and institutional abuse, and what fiction looks like that testifies against and references a historical background of slavery, poverty, settler colonialism, annexation, and immigration. Investigating the means of resistance used against attempts at silencing and denial in these texts, the book also shows how contemporary women’s novels can propose social change. Overall, this study uniquely argues that the individual trauma of incest in these texts must be understood in relation to histories of and present collective wounding against marginalized communities. By sitting at the intersections between trauma theory and US third world feminism, it allows for theory to meet literary activism.

Author : Ylce Irizarry
Publisher : University of Illinois Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780252098079

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Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction by Ylce Irizarry Pdf

In this new study, Ylce Irizarry moves beyond literature that prioritizes assimilation to examine how contemporary fiction depicts being Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, or Puerto Rican within Chicana/o and Latina/o America. Irizarry establishes four dominant categories of narrative--loss, reclamation, fracture, and new memory--that address immigration, gender and sexuality, cultural nationalisms, and neocolonialism. As she shows, narrative concerns have moved away from the weathered notions of arrival and assimilation. Contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures instead tell stories that have little, if anything, to do with integration into the Anglo-American world. The result is the creation of new memory. This reformulation of cultural membership unmasks the neocolonial story and charts the conscious engagement of cultural memory. It outlines the ways contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o communities create belonging and memory of their ethnic origins. An engaging contribution to an important literary tradition, Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction privileges the stories Chicanas/os and Latinas/os remember about themselves rather than the stories of those subjugating them.

Author : José David Saldívar
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2023-04-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520918368

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Border Matters by José David Saldívar Pdf

Border Matters locates the study of Chicano culture in a broad social context. José Saldívar examines issues of representation and expression in a diverse, exciting assortment of texts—corridos, novels, poems, short stories, punk and hip-hop music, ethnography, paintings, performance, art, and essays. Saldívar provides a sophisticated model for a new kind of U.S. cultural studies, one that challenges the homogeneity of U.S. nationalism and popular culture by foregrounding the contemporary experiences and historical circumstances facing Chicanos and Chicanas. This intellectually adventurous, politically engaged study applies borderlands and diaspora theory to Chicano cultural practices in a way that permanently changes our understanding of both the Chicano experience and the meaning of cultural theory. Defying national (and nationalistic) paradigms of culture, Saldívar argues that the culture of the borderlands is trans-national, constituting a social space in which new relations, hybrid cultures, and multi-voiced aesthetics are negotiated. Saldívar's critical readings treat culture as a social force and reveal the presence of social contexts within cultural texts. Border Matters maps out a new terrain for the study of culture, reshaping the way we understand migration, national identity, and intellectual inquiry itself.

Author : Wendy B. Faris
Publisher : Vanderbilt University Press
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0826514421

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Ordinary Enchantments by Wendy B. Faris Pdf

Ordinary Enchantments investigates magical realism as the most important trend in contemporary international fiction, defines its characteristics and narrative techniques, and proposes a new theory to explain its significance. In the most comprehensive critical treatment of this literary mode to date, Wendy B. Faris discusses a rich array of examples from magical realist novels around the world, including the work not only of Latin American writers like Gabriel Garcia Marquez, but also of authors like Salman Rushdie, Gunter Grass, Toni Morrison, and Ben Okri. Faris argues that by combining realistic representation with fantastic elements so that the marvelous seems to grow organically out of the ordinary, magical realism destabilizes the dominant form of realism based on empirical definitions of reality, gives it visionary power, and thus constitutes what might be called a "remystification" of narrative in the West. Noting the radical narrative heterogeneity of magical realism, the author compares its cultural role to that of traditional shamanic performance, which joins the worlds of daily life and that of the spirits. Because of that capacity to bridge different worlds, magical realism has served as an effective decolonizing agent, providing the ground for marginal voices, submerged traditions, and emergent literatures to develop and create masterpieces. At the same time, this process is not limited to postcolonial situations but constitutes a global trend that replenishes realism from within. In addition to describing what many consider to be the progressive cultural work of magical realism, Faris also confronts the recent accusation that magical realism and its study as a global phenomenon can be seen as a form of commodification and an imposition of cultural homogeneity. And finally, drawing on the narrative innovations and cultural scenarios that magical realism enacts, she extends those principles toward issues of gender and the possibility of a female element within magical realism.

Author : Carmen García Navarro
Publisher : Universidad Almería
Page : 166 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2018-07-20
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Odisea nº 18 by Carmen García Navarro Pdf

Revista de Estudios Ingleses es un anuario dirigido y gestionado por miembros del Departamento de Filología Inglesa y Alemana de la Universidad de Almería con el propósito de ofrecer un foro de intercambio de producción científica en campos del conocimiento tan diversos como la lengua inglesa, literatura en lengua inglesa, didáctica del inglés, traducción, inglés para fines específicos y otros igualmente vinculados a los estudios ingleses.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : American literature
ISBN : STANFORD:36105007104149

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Revista chicano-riquena by Anonim Pdf

Author : Héctor Calderón,José David Saldívar
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 1991-05-30
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0822311437

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Criticism in the Borderlands by Héctor Calderón,José David Saldívar Pdf

This pathbreaking anthology of Chicano literary criticism, with essays on a remarkable range of texts—both old and new—draws on diverse perspectives in contemporary literary and cultural studies: from ethnographic to postmodernist, from Marxist to feminist, from cultural materialist to new historicist. The editors have organized essays around four board themes: the situation of Chicano literary studies within American literary history and debates about the “canon”; representations of the Chicana/o subject; genre, ideology, and history; and the aesthetics of Chicano literature. The volume as a whole aims at generating new ways of understanding what counts as culture and “theory” and who counts as a theorist. A selected and annotated bibliography of contemporary Chicano literary criticism is also included. By recovering neglected authors and texts and introducing readers to an emergent Chicano canon, by introducing new perspectives on American literary history, ethnicity, gender, culture, and the literary process itself, Criticism in the Borderlands is an agenda-setting collection that moves beyond previous scholarship to open up the field of Chicano literary studies and to define anew what is American literature. Contributors. Norma Alarcón, Héctor Calderón, Angie Chabram, Barbara Harlow, Rolando Hinojosa, Luis Leal, José E. Limón, Terese McKenna, Elizabeth J. Ordóñez, Genero Padilla, Alvina E. Quintana, Renato Rosaldo, José David Saldívar, Sonia Saldívar-Hull, Rosaura Sánchez, Roberto Trujillo

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 784 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : American literature
ISBN : NWU:35556017241860

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Revista Chicano-Riqueña by Anonim Pdf

Author : Juli‡n Olivares
Publisher : Arte Publico Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1986-01-01
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1611921864

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International Studies in Honor of Tom‡s Rivera by Juli‡n Olivares Pdf

Tom‡s Rivera, author of the award-winning novel Éy no se lo trag— la tierra, passed away in 1985 and is commemorated in recollections by Rolando Hinojosa and AmŽrico Paredes and studies of his prose and poetry by leading critics of Chicano literature.

Author : David Seed
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-01-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1444310119

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A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction by David Seed Pdf

Through a wide-ranging series of essays and relevant readings, A Companion to Twentieth-Century United States Fiction presents an overview of American fiction published since the conclusion of the First World War. Features a wide-ranging series of essays by American, British, and European specialists in a variety of literary fields Written in an approachable and accessible style Covers both classic literary figures and contemporary novelists Provides extensive suggestions for further reading at the end of each essay

Author : César A. González-T.,Phyllis S. Morgan
Publisher : Ethnic Studies Library, University of California, Berkeley
Page : 336 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173008338333

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A Sense of Place by César A. González-T.,Phyllis S. Morgan Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 480 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : American literature
ISBN : UCSC:32106009210060

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The Americas Review by Anonim Pdf