Chicana Poetry

  chicana poetry: Contemporary Chicana Poetry Marta E. Sanchez, 2023-04-28 In this first book-length study of the works of Chicano women writers, Marta Ester Sanchez introduces the reader to a group of Chicanas who in the 1970s began to reexamine and reevaluate their gender and cultural identity through poetic language. The term 'Chicana' refers here to women of Mexican heritage who live and write in the United States. The works of four contemporary Chicana poets---Alma Villanueva, Lorna Dee Cervantes, Lucha Corpi, and Bernice Zamora---are the focus of this volume. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1986. In this first book-length study of the works of Chicano women writers, Marta Ester Sanchez introduces the reader to a group of Chicanas who in the 1970s began to reexamine and reevaluate their gender and cultural identity through poetic language. The term
  chicana poetry: Heart Like a Window, Mouth Like a Cliff Sara Borjas, 2019 Poetry. California Interest. Latinx Studies. HEART LIKE A WINDOW, MOUTH LIKE A CLIFF is a transgressive, yet surprisingly tender confrontation of what it means to want to flee the thing you need most. The speaker struggles through cultural assimilation and the pressure to act Mexican while dreaming of the privileges of whiteness. Borjas holds cultural traditions accountable for the gendered denial of Chicanas to individuate and love deeply without allowing one's love to consume the self. This is nothing new. This is colonization working through relationships within Chicanx families--how we learn love and perform it, how we filter it though alcohol abuse--how ultimately, we oppress the people we love most. This collection simultaneously reveres and destroys nostalgia, slips out of the story after a party where the reader can find God drunk and dreaming. Think golden oldiez meets the punk attitude of No Doubt. Think pochas sipping gin martinis in lowriders cruising down Who Gives a Fuck Boulevard.
  chicana poetry: Movements in Chicano Poetry Rafael Pèrez-Torres, 1995-01-27 Studies the central concerns addressed by recent Chicano poetry.
  chicana poetry: Mexican Ballads, Chicano Poems José E. Limón, 1992-07 José Limón is one of our most interesting and important commentators on Chicano culture. . . . [This book] will help strengthen an important style of historically and politically accountable cultural analysis.—Michael M. J. Fischer, co-author of Debating Muslims: Cultural Dialogues in Postmodernity and Tradition
  chicana poetry: Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature Deborah L. Madsen, 2000 Exploring the work of six notable authors, this text reveals characteristic themes, images and stylistic devices that make contemporary Chicana writing a vibrant and innovative part of a burgeoning Latina creativity.
  chicana poetry: The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics Stephen Cushman, Clare Cavanagh, Jahan Ramazani, Paul Rouzer, 2012-08-26 The most important poetry reference for more than four decades—now fully updated for the twenty-first century Through three editions over more than four decades, The Princeton Encyclopedia of Poetry and Poetics has built an unrivaled reputation as the most comprehensive and authoritative reference for students, scholars, and poets on all aspects of its subject: history, movements, genres, prosody, rhetorical devices, critical terms, and more. Now this landmark work has been thoroughly revised and updated for the twenty-first century. Compiled by an entirely new team of editors, the fourth edition—the first new edition in almost twenty years—reflects recent changes in literary and cultural studies, providing up-to-date coverage and giving greater attention to the international aspects of poetry, all while preserving the best of the previous volumes. At well over a million words and more than 1,000 entries, the Encyclopedia has unparalleled breadth and depth. Entries range in length from brief paragraphs to major essays of 15,000 words, offering a more thorough treatment—including expert synthesis and indispensable bibliographies—than conventional handbooks or dictionaries. This is a book that no reader or writer of poetry will want to be without. Thoroughly revised and updated by a new editorial team for twenty-first-century students, scholars, and poets More than 250 new entries cover recent terms, movements, and related topics Broader international coverage includes articles on the poetries of more than 110 nations, regions, and languages Expanded coverage of poetries of the non-Western and developing worlds Updated bibliographies and cross-references New, easier-to-use page design Fully indexed for the first time
  chicana poetry: Contemporary Chicana Poetry Marta Ester Sánchez, 1985 Discusses 4 Chicana poets' dilemmas of their dual relationship to American and Mexican societies and of their dual identity as Chicanas and as women writing in a contemporary setting.
  chicana poetry: Stunned Into Being Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson, 2012 Lorna Dee Cervantes is a pivotal figure throughout the Chicano literary movement and this book gathers 30 years' worth of essays and articles about her as well as interviews with her. A fifth-generation Californian of Mexican and Native American (Chumasch) heritage, Cervantes is widely considered one of the most important Latina poets who drew tremendous power from her struggles in the literary and political trenches. This work explores the boundaries between language and experience and features a new collection of poems by the dynamic poet.
  chicana poetry: Landscapes of Writing in Chicano Literature I. Martín-Junquera, 2013-12-17 Adding nuance to a global debate, esteemed scholars from Europe and North and Latin America portray the attempts in Chicano literature to provide answers to the environmental crisis. Diverse ecocritical perspectives add new meaning to the novels, short stories, drama, poetry, films, and documentaries analyzed in this timely and engaged collection.
  chicana poetry: Three Times a Woman Alicia Gaspar de Alba, María Herrera-Sobek, Demetria Martínez, 1989 This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by three outstanding Chicana poets. Alicia Gaspar de Alba cultivates a poetry of paradox that explores the borders between politics and the sexes. Maria Herrera-Sobek's collection is suffused with memories that keep alive the dead, and that, with the help of ars poetica, reorder lives and events that have been blown away. Demetria Martinez has written a sensitive, caring and morally and politically committed work.
  chicana poetry: Criticism in the Borderlands Héctor Calderón, José David Saldívar, 1991-05-30 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
  chicana poetry: Canon Vs. Culture Jan Gorak, 2013-06-17 Canon Vs. Culture explores the consequences of one of the main educational shifts of the last quarter century-- the changes from academic inquiry conducted through a selected list of accepted authorities to an investigation of the cultural operations of an entire society.
  chicana poetry: Chicana Falsa Michele M. Serros, 2012-02-10 From the white boy who transforms himself into a full-fledged Chicano, to the self-assured woman who effortlessly terrorizes her Anglo boss, to the junior-high friend who berated her sloppy Spanish and accused her of being a Chicana Falsa, the people and places that Michele Serros brings to vivid life in this collection of poems and stories introduce a unique new viewpoint to the American literary landscape. Witty, tender, irreverent, and emotionally honest, her words speak to the painful and hilarious identity crises particular to the coming of age of an adolescent caught between two cultures.
  chicana poetry: Emplumada Lorna Dee Cervantes, 1982-01-15 Emplumada is Lorna Dee Cervantes’s first book, a collection of poems remarkable for their surface clarity, precision of image, and emotional urgency. Rooted in her Chicana heritage, these poems illuminate the American experience of the last quarter century and, at a time when much of what is merely fashionable in American poetry is recondite and exclusive, Cervantes has the ability to speak to and for a large audience.
  chicana poetry: Concise Encyclopedia of Latin American Literature Verity Smith, 2014-01-14 The Concise Encyclopedia includes: all entries on topics and countries, cited by many reviewers as being among the best entries in the book; entries on the 50 leading writers in Latin America from colonial times to the present; and detailed articles on some 50 important works in this literature-those who read and studied in the English-speaking world.
  chicana poetry: Chicano Poetry Cordelia Candelaria, 1986-02-21
  chicana poetry: Chicanismo in Selected Poetry from the Chicano Movement, 1969-1972 Michael Victor Sedano, 1980
  chicana poetry: Notable Hispanic American Women Diane Telgen, 1993 Contains short biographies of three hundred Hispanic American women who have achieved national or international prominence in a variety of fields.
  chicana poetry: The Chicana Studies Index Lillian Castillo-Speed, 1992 The definitive source. Never before has the researcher had this kind of detailed subject access to the research literature on Mexican American women. Comprehensive in its scope, this guide covers not only traditional areas such as immigration, fertility, & sex roles, but also documents the ground-breaking studies on Chicana sexuality. The latest research on Chicanas & health issues such as AIDS, mental health, & medical care are also covered. Complete bibliographic citations for journal articles, books, dissertations, working papers, & articles in books are listed under appropriate subject headings from the Chicano Thesaurus. Author & title indexes also provide useful access.
  chicana poetry: Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics Devon Gerardo Pena, 1998 Until recently, mainstream American environmentalism has been a predominantly white, middle-class movement, essentially ignoring the class, race, and gender dimensions of environmental politics. In this provocative collection of original essays, the environmental dimensions of the Chicana/o experience are explicitly expressed and debated. Employing a variety of genres ranging from poetry to autobiography to theoretical and empirical essays, the voices in this collection speak to the most significant issues of environmentalism and social justice, recognizing throughout the need for a pluralism of Chicana/o philosophies. The contributors provide an excellent basis for understanding how multiple Chicana/o views on the environment play out in the context of dominant social, political and economic views. Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics examines a number of Chicana/o ecological perspectives. How can the ethics of reciprocity present in Chicana/o agropastoral life be protected and applied on a broader scale? How can the dominant society, whose economic structure is invested in placeless mobility, take note of the harm caused to land-based cultures, take responsibility for it, and take heed before it is too late? Will the larger society be ecologically housebroken before it destroys its home? Grounded in actual political struggles waged by Chicana/o communities over issues of environmental destruction, cultural genocide, and socioeconomic domination, this volume provides an important series of snapshots of Chicana/o history. Chicano Culture, Ecology, Politics illuminates the bridges that existÑand must be understoodÑbetween race, ethnicity, class, gender, politics, and ecology. CONTENTS Part 1: IndoHispano Land Ethics Los Animalitos: Culture, Ecology, and the Politics of Place in the Upper RÁo Grande, Devon G. Pe–a Social Action Research, Bioregionalism, and the Upper R’o Grande, RubŽn O. Mart’nez Notes on (Home)Land Ethics: Ideas, Values, and the Land, Reyes Garc’a Part 2: Environmental History and Ecological Politics Ecological Legitimacy and Cultural Essentialism: Hispano Grazing in Northern New Mexico, Laura Pulido The Capitalist Tool, the Lawless, and the Violent: A Critique of Recent Southwestern Environmental History, Devon G. Pe–a and RubŽn O. Mart’nez Ecofeminism and Chicano Environmental Struggles: Bridges across Gender and Race, Gwyn Kirk Philosophy Meets Practice: A Critique of Ecofeminism through the Voices of Three Chicana Activists, Malia Davis Part 3: Alternatives to Destruction The Pasture Poacher (a poem), Joseph C. Gallegos Acequia Tales: Stories from a Chicano Centennial Farm, Joseph C. Gallegos A Gold Mine, an Orchard, and an Eleventh Commandment, Devon G. Pe–a
  chicana poetry: Chicano and Chicana Literature Charles M. Tatum, 2006-09-14 Exploring the work of Rudolfo Anaya, Sandra Cisneros, Luis Alberto Urrea, and many more, Charles Tatum examines the important social, historical, and cultural contexts in which the writing evolved, paying special attention to the Chicano Movement and the flourishing of literary texts during the 1960s and early 1970s. Chapters provide an overview of the most important theoretical and critical approaches employed by scholars over the past forty years and survey the major trends and themes in contemporary autobiography, fiction, poetry, and theater.--P. [4] of cover.
  chicana poetry: Contemporary Chicano Poetry Wolfgang Binder, 1986
  chicana poetry: Five Poets of Aztlán Alfonso Rodríguez, Santiago Daydí-Tolson, 1985 This volume includes five full-length collections of Chicano poetry by Alfonso Rodriguez, Leroy V. Quintana, El Huitlacoche, Alma Luz Villanueva, and Carmen Tafolla. Bringing together five divergent voices, the poetry ranges from the feminist to the comic and parodic, the religious and meditative, and the socially committed.
  chicana poetry: Syntax and Bilingual Chicano Poetry Roberto Hermán Córdova, 1977
  chicana poetry: Loss and Recovery of Memory in the Poetry of Lorna Dee Cervantes Sonia V. Gonzalez, 2004
  chicana poetry: Chicana Ways Karin Ikas, 2001 A collection of interviews with ten prominent Chicana writers, who describe their lives, writing careers, and aspirations.
  chicana poetry: Chicana Literature and Related Sources Elizabeth Jane Ordóñez, 1981
  chicana poetry: Third Woman , 1986
  chicana poetry: Literatura Chicana , 1985
  chicana poetry: Despierten Hermanas Y Hermanos! Marisela Rodriguez Chavez, 2004
  chicana poetry: The Chicano Struggle John A. García, Teresa Córdova, National Association for Chicano Studies, 1984 This collection of scholarly papers reflects the expanding scope of activities within Chicano studies. The range of topics -- criticism and analysis of Chicano literature, Chicano studies and their impact on cultural identity, federal and state bilingual education legislation, Mexican American labor history, and much more -- is a clear indication of the vitality of the field.
  chicana poetry: Three Times a Woman Alicia Gaspar de Alba, María Herrera-Sobek, Demetria Martínez, 1989 This volume presents full-length collections of poetry by three outstanding Chicana poets. Alicia Gaspar de Alba cultivates a poetry of paradox that explores the borders between politics and the sexes. Maria Herrera-Sobek's collection is suffused with memories that keep alive the dead, and that, with the help of ars poetica, reorder lives and events that have been blown away. Demetria Martinez has written a sensitive, caring and morally and politically committed work.
  chicana poetry: Literatura chicana Rosa Morillas Sánchez, Manuel Villar Raso, 2000
  chicana poetry: Contemporary American Women Poets Catherine Cucinella, 2002-11-30 This reference contains alphabetically arranged entries on nearly 70 American women poets who published significant works after WWII. Each entry consists of four sections: Biography, Major Works and Themes, Critical Reception, and Bibliography (both primary and secondary). Those profiled include well-known poets such as Maya Angelou and Sylvia Plath as well as those who are only beginning to attract the interest of critics. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR.
  chicana poetry: Chicana Lesbians Carla Trujillo, 1991 Literary Nonfiction. LGBT Studies. CHICANA LESBIANS is a love poem, a bible, a dictionary, nothing so simple as a manifesto--this book is yet another reason to believe--to believe in the girls our mothers warned us about, brown girls, lesbians, making their own love poems, bibles, dictionaries, manifestoes, reasons to believe.--Dorothy Allison When I was selling books at a Chicana conference, I noticed book buyers were literally afraid to touch this anthology. I say now what I said then, 'Don't be scared. Sexuality is not contagious, but ignorance is.' If you've ever been curious, been there, been voyeur, been tourist, or just plain under-informed, misinformed, or unaffirmed, here is a book to listen to and learn from.--Sandra Cisneros
  chicana poetry: Critical Survey of Poetry Philip K. Jason, 2003 Presents alphabetized profiles of nearly seven hundred significant poets from around the world, providing biographies, primary and secondary bibliographies, and analysis of their works.
  chicana poetry: Chicano Anthology Index Francisco García-Ayvens, 1990
  chicana poetry: Chicano Periodical Index , 1989
  chicana poetry: Chicano Literature Julio Martinez, Francis. Lomeli, 1985-07-24 An excellent resource on the subject. Recommended for all libraries supporting research in Chicano literature. Reference Book Review
  chicana poetry: Chicana Discourse Alvina Eugenia Quintana, 1989
Chicano - Wikipedia
Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement. [1][2][3]

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The term Chicano may be used to refer to someone of Mexican descent born in the United States. Though it is sometimes used as a synonym for Mexican-American, the word Chicano may be …

Chicano | People, Language & Identity | Britannica
May 18, 2025 · Chicano, identifier for people of Mexican descent born in the United States. The term came into popular use by Mexican Americans as a symbol of pride during the Chicano …

How the Chicano Movement Championed Mexican-American …
Sep 18, 2020 · Chicano activists took on a name that had long been a racial slur—and wore it with pride.

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Jun 12, 2019 · Maybe you’ve heard about noted Chicano leaders like Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales and César Chávez—and rightfully so. They were critical to the development of el Movimiento. …

CHICANA Definition & Meaning - Merriam-Webster
The meaning of CHICANA is an American woman or girl of Mexican descent.

What’s a Chicano? – Chicano History and Culture
Well, it’s complicated so let’s start with the term Chicano. This is an pre-columbian term from the Nahuatl language used by the Aztecs to describe their original homeland in what is currently …

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Sep 20, 2023 · According to Arizona State University Regents Professor Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, the term gives identity to people who do not feel Mexican or American.

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According to Carlos Vélez-Ibáñez, a professor at Arizona State University, being part of this identity is more than just a nationality or ethnicity—it’s a worldview and a political identity. The …

Chicana | definition in the Cambridge English Dictionary
Chicana meaning: 1. a woman or girl who was born in the US and whose family comes from Mexico: 2. (of a woman or…. Learn more.

Chicano - Wikipedia
Chicano (masculine form) or Chicana (feminine form) is an ethnic identity for Mexican Americans that emerged from the Chicano Movement. [1][2][3]

"Hispanic" vs. "Mexican" vs. "Latino" vs. "Chicano ... - Spa…
The term Chicano may be used to refer to someone of Mexican descent born in the United States. Though it is sometimes used as a synonym for …

Chicano | People, Language & Identity | Britannica
May 18, 2025 · Chicano, identifier for people of Mexican descent born in the United States. The term came into popular use by Mexican Americans …

How the Chicano Movement Championed Mexican-Americ…
Sep 18, 2020 · Chicano activists took on a name that had long been a racial slur—and wore it with pride.

Chicana Power: Female Leaders in el Movimiento an…
Jun 12, 2019 · Maybe you’ve heard about noted Chicano leaders like Rodolfo “Corky” Gonzales and César Chávez—and rightfully so. They were …