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Toward a Latina feminism of the Americas : repression and resistance in Chicana and Mexicana literature / Anna Marie Sandoval.

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Online Access:	Full Text (via ProQuest)
Main Author:	Sandoval, Anna Marie
Format:	eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Austin : University of Texas Press, 2008.
Edition:	1st ed.
Series:	Chicana matters series.
Subjects:	American literature > Mexican American authors > History and criticism. American literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Mexican literature > Women authors > History and criticism. Feminism in literature. Women in literature. Comparative literature > American and Mexican. Comparative literature > Mexican and American. American literature > Mexican American authors American literature > Women authors Feminism in literature Mexican literature > Women authors Women in literature Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Table of Contents:

"Unir los lazos": braiding Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities
Crossing borders and blurring boundaries: Sandra Cisneros re-visions the wailing woman
"No dejen que se escapen": Carmen Boullosa and Laura Esquivel
Acts of daily resistance in urban and rural settings: the fiction of Helena María Viramontes.