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Speaking Chicana [electronic resource] : voice, power, and identity / edited by D. Letticia Galindo, María Dolores Gonzales.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Latino literature
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Mexican American women--Language.
- Mexican American women.
- Sociolinguistics--United States.
- Sociolinguistics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (viii, 226 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.)
- Place of Publication:
- Tucson : University of Arizona Press, c1999.
- Contents:
- Crossing social and cultural borders: the road to language hybridity / María Dolores Gonzales
- Fighting words: Latina girls, gangs, and language attitudes / Norma Mendoza-Denton
- Speaking as a Chicana: tracing cultural heritage through silence and betrayal / Jacqueline M. Martínez
- The power of language: from the back of the bus to the ivory tower / Christine Marín
- Challenging tradition: opening the headgate / Ida M. Luján
- Mexican blood runs through my veins / Aurora Orozco
- Searching for a voice: ambiguities and possibilities / Erlinda Gonzales-Berry
- Sacred cults, subversive icons: Chicanas and the pictorial language of Catholicism / Charlene Villaseñor Black
- Caló and taboo language use among Chicanas: a description of linguistic appropriation and innovation / D. Letticia Galindo
- Máscaras, trenzas, y greñas : un/masking the self while un/braiding Latina stories and legal discourse / Margaret E. Montoya.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- OCLC:
- 304163704
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