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Extinct lands, temporal geographies : Chicana literature and the urgency of space / Mary Pat Brady.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Brady, Mary Pat, 1961-
- Series:
- e-Duke books scholarly collection.
- Latin America otherwise.
- Latin America otherwise
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Mexican American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Southwestern States--History and criticism.
- American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- Women and literature--Southwestern States.
- Women and literature.
- Mexican American women--Intellectual life.
- Mexican American women.
- Mexican Americans in literature.
- Space and time in literature.
- Personal space in literature.
- Narration (Rhetoric).
- Southwestern States--In literature.
- Southwestern States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (289 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, c2002.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Examines how Chicana literature -- its narrative techniques, stylistic conventions, plot dilemmas and resolutions -- interrogate the multiple ways space and social relations constitute each other.
- Contents:
- Razing Arizona
- Double-crossing la frontera nomada
- Intermarginalia: Chicana/ a spatiality and sexuality in the work of Gloria Anzaldua and Terri de la Pena
- Sandra cisneros's contrapuntal "geography of scars"
- "Against the nostalgia for the whole and the one": Cherrie Moraga, Aztlan, and the spatiality of memory
- "War again, or somesuch": narrating the scale and scope of narcospatiality.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [247]-267) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9786613063359
- 9781283063357
- 1283063352
- 9780822383864
- 0822383861
- OCLC:
- 191222204
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