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Despite the growing literary scholarship on Chicana writers, few,
if any, studies have exhaustively explored themes of motherhood,
maternity, and mother-daughter relationships in their novels. When
discussions of motherhood and mother-daughter relationships do
occur in literary scholarship, they tend to mostly be a backdrop to
a larger conversation on themes such as identity, space, and
sexuality, for example. Mother-daughter relationships have been
ignored in much literary criticism, but this book reveals that
maternal relationships are crucial to the study of Chicana
literature; more precisely, examining maternal relationships
provides insight to Chicana writers' rejection of intersecting
power structures that otherwise silence Chicanas and women of
color. This book advances the field of Chicana literary scholarship
through a discussion of Chicana writers' efforts to re-write the
script of maternity outside of existing discourses that situate
Chicana mothers as silent and passive and the subsequent
mother-daughter relationship as a source of tension and angst.
Chicana writers are actively engaged in the process of re-writing
motherhood that resists the image of the static, disempowered
Chicana mother; on the other hand, these same writers engage in
broad representations of Chicana mother-daughter relationships that
are not merely a source of conflict but also a means in which both
mothers and daughters may achieve subjectivity. While some of the
texts studied do present often conflicted relationships between
mothers and their daughters, the novels do not comfortably accept
this script as the rule; rather, the writers included in this study
are highly invested in re-writing Chicana motherhood as a source of
empowerment even as their works present strained maternal
relationships. Chicana writers have challenged the pervasiveness of
the problematic virgin/whore binary which has been the motif on
which Chicana womanhood/motherhood has been defined, and they
resist the construction of maternity on such narrow terms. Many of
the novels included in this study actively foreground a conscious
resistance to the limiting binaries of motherhood symbolized in the
virgin/whore split. The writers critically call for a rethinking of
motherhood beyond this scope as a means to explore the empowering
possibilities of maternal relationships. This book is an important
contribution to the fields of Chicana/Latina and American literary
scholarship.
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the
acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernandez, Isabel
Quintero, Ashley Hope Perez, Erika Sanchez, Guadalupe Garcia
McCall, and Patricia Santana. Combining the term "Chicana" with
"nerd," Dr. Herrera coins the term "ChicaNerd" to argue how the
young women protagonists in these novels voice astute observations
of their identities as nonwhite teenagers, specifically through a
lens of nerdiness-a reclamation of brown girl self-love for being a
nerd. In analyzing these ChicaNerds, the volume examines the
reclamation and powerful acceptance of one's nerdy Chicana self.
While popular culture and mainstream media have shaped the
well-known figure of the nerd as synonymous with white maleness,
Chicana YA literature subverts the nerd stereotype through its
negation of this identity as always white and male. These
ChicaNerds unite their burgeoning sociopolitical consciousness as
young nonwhite girls with their "nerdy" traits of bookishness, math
and literary intelligence, poetic talents, and love of learning.
Combining the sociopolitical consciousness of Chicanisma with one
aligned to the well-known image of the "nerd," ChicaNerds learn to
navigate the many complicated layers of coming to an empowered
declaration of themselves as smart Chicanas.
This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both
widely-read and understudied nineteenth through twenty-first
century fictional works that engage in critical discussions of
gender, race, sexuality, and identity. The essays in this
collection do not simply seek inclusion for the texts they
critically discuss, but suggest that we more thoughtfully consider
the utility of mapping, whether we are mapping land, borders, time,
migration, or connections and disconnections across time and space.
Using new and rigorous methodological approaches to reading
Latina/o literature, contributors reveal a varied and textured
landscape, challenging us to reconsider the process and influence
of literary production across borders.
ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the
acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernandez, Isabel
Quintero, Ashley Hope Perez, Erika Sanchez, Guadalupe Garcia
McCall, and Patricia Santana. Combining the term "Chicana" with
"nerd," Dr. Herrera coins the term "ChicaNerd" to argue how the
young women protagonists in these novels voice astute observations
of their identities as nonwhite teenagers, specifically through a
lens of nerdiness-a reclamation of brown girl self-love for being a
nerd. In analyzing these ChicaNerds, the volume examines the
reclamation and powerful acceptance of one's nerdy Chicana self.
While popular culture and mainstream media have shaped the
well-known figure of the nerd as synonymous with white maleness,
Chicana YA literature subverts the nerd stereotype through its
negation of this identity as always white and male. These
ChicaNerds unite their burgeoning sociopolitical consciousness as
young nonwhite girls with their "nerdy" traits of bookishness, math
and literary intelligence, poetic talents, and love of learning.
Combining the sociopolitical consciousness of Chicanisma with one
aligned to the well-known image of the "nerd," ChicaNerds learn to
navigate the many complicated layers of coming to an empowered
declaration of themselves as smart Chicanas.
The banning of Mexican-American Studies and censorship of
Chican@-authored books in Arizona were part of a succession of
anti-Mexican and anti-Chican@ policies that were enacted across the
state and in the education system. The counterstories offered
through these classes and literature not only created a sense of
cultural inclusion, but ignited a political and activist
consciousness among the mostly Chican@ youth, and reinvigorated
conversations among educators about the teaching of race,
ethnicity, and culture in the classroom, particularly through youth
literature. While most work on youth literature has emphasized
"multicultural" literature as a means of being inclusive, Voices of
Resistance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chican@ Children's
Literature recognizes that our present moment--one that is rife
with continued anti-Mexican sentiment but that has given rise to
our first Chicano National Poet Laureate--demands a more focused
study of children's and young adult literature by and about
Chican@s. This collection re-examines how we view multicultural and
diversity literature and recognize literature that invites social
transformation. Using multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives to
critically examine a wide range of Chican@ children's pictures book
and young adult novels, this collection reaffirms Chicano@
children's literature as a means to achieve equity and social
change.
The banning of Mexican-American Studies and censorship of
Chican@-authored books in Arizona were part of a succession of
anti-Mexican and anti-Chican@ policies that were enacted across the
state and in the education system. The counterstories offered
through these classes and literature not only created a sense of
cultural inclusion, but ignited a political and activist
consciousness among the mostly Chican@ youth, and reinvigorated
conversations among educators about the teaching of race,
ethnicity, and culture in the classroom, particularly through youth
literature. While most work on youth literature has emphasized
"multicultural" literature as a means of being inclusive, Voices of
Resistance: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Chican@ Children's
Literature recognizes that our present moment--one that is rife
with continued anti-Mexican sentiment but that has given rise to
our first Chicano National Poet Laureate--demands a more focused
study of children's and young adult literature by and about
Chican@s. This collection re-examines how we view multicultural and
diversity literature and recognize literature that invites social
transformation. Using multi- and interdisciplinary perspectives to
critically examine a wide range of Chican@ children's pictures book
and young adult novels, this collection reaffirms Chicano@
children's literature as a means to achieve equity and social
change.
This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both
widely-read and understudied nineteenth through twenty-first
century fictional works that engage in critical discussions of
gender, race, sexuality, and identity. The essays in this
collection do not simply seek inclusion for the texts they
critically discuss, but suggest that we more thoughtfully consider
the utility of mapping, whether we are mapping land, borders, time,
migration, or connections and disconnections across time and space.
Using new and rigorous methodological approaches to reading
Latina/o literature, contributors reveal a varied and textured
landscape, challenging us to reconsider the process and influence
of literary production across borders.
Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avil's, Trevor Boffone,
Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe
Garcia McCall, Domino Renee Perez, Adrianna M. Santos, Roxanne
Schroeder-Arce, Lettycia Terrones, and Tim Wadham In Nerds, Goths,
Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult
Literature, the outsider intersects with discussions of race,
ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The essays in this volume address
questions of outsider identities and how these identities are
shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people,
particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling,
underachieving inner-city teens. Contributors also grapple with how
young adults reclaim what it means to be an outsider, weirdo, nerd,
or goth, and how the reclamation of these marginalized identities
expand conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings
of what constitutes cultural identity. Included are analysis of
such texts as I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Shadowshaper,
Swimming While Drowning, and others. Addressed in the essays are
themes of outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx children's and young adult
literature, and the contributors insist that to understand Latinx
youth identities it is necessary to shed light on outsiders within
an already marginalized ethnic group: nerds, goths, geeks, freaks,
and others who might not fit within such Latinx popular cultural
paradigms as the chola and cholo, identities that are ever-present
in films, television, and the internet.
While scholarship on Caribbean women's literature has grown into an
established discipline, there are not many studies explicitly
connected to the maternal subject matter, and among them only a few
book-length texts have focalized motherhood and maternity in
writings by Caribbean women. Reading/Speaking/Writing the Mother
Text: Essays on Caribbean Women's Writing encourages a crucial
dialogue surrounding the state of motherhood scholarship within the
Caribbean literary landscape, to call for attention on a theme
that, although highly visible, remains understudied by academics.
While this collection presents a similar comparative and diasporic
approach to other book-length studies on Caribbean women's writing,
it deals with the complexity of including a wider geographical,
linguistic, ethnic and generic diversity, while exposing the myriad
ways in which Caribbean women authors shape and construct their
texts to theorize motherhood, mothering, maternity, and
mother-daughter relationships.
Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Aviles, Trevor Boffone,
Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe
Garcia McCall, Domino Renee Perez, Adrianna M. Santos, Roxanne
Schroeder-Arce, Lettycia Terrones, and Tim Wadham In Nerds, Goths,
Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult
Literature, the outsider intersects with discussions of race,
ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The essays in this volume address
questions of outsider identities and how these identities are
shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people,
particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling,
underachieving inner-city teens. Contributors also grapple with how
young adults reclaim what it means to be an outsider, weirdo, nerd,
or goth, and how the reclamation of these marginalized identities
expand conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings
of what constitutes cultural identity. Included are analysis of
such texts as I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Shadowshaper,
Swimming While Drowning, and others. Addressed in the essays are
themes of outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx children's and young adult
literature, and the contributors insist that to understand Latinx
youth identities it is necessary to shed light on outsiders within
an already marginalized ethnic group: nerds, goths, geeks, freaks,
and others who might not fit within such Latinx popular cultural
paradigms as the chola and cholo, identities that are ever-present
in films, television, and the internet.
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