Table of Contents

• Preface
• Introduction: Hey, That's MY Story! A Conversation with My Peruvian Father and My Mexican Mother—Literature and Identity
• Part I. On Criticism and Critics
  • 1. The Chronicles of Panchita Villa: Episode One (1993)
  • 2. The Chronicles of Panchita Villa: Episode Two (1997)
  • 3. Women Writers, New Disciplines, and the Canon (2000)
  • 4. The Politics of Poetics: Or, What Am I, a Critic, Doing in This Text Anyhow? (1987)
  • 5. "Sprinkling Wildflower Seeds": A Plática about Critical Perspectives in Chicana/Latina Literature (1998)
  • 6. Reconstructing Sor Juana's Library: Twenty Years of Chicana Literary Representation (1999)
• Part II. On Chicana Literature
  • 7. Who Killed Presiliano Ulibarrí? Or, the Case of the Missing Women: Clues for Cultural Studies (1993)
  • 8. Las Mujeres Hablan: Creativity as Politics (1996)
  • 9. "No More Cookies, Please!": Chicana Feminism through Literature (1997)
  • 10. "Jugando a la vida con poemas": Contemporary Chicana Poetry in Spanish (1998)
  • 11. "Mi Vida Loca": Symbolic Spaces in the Construction of Identity in Chicana Literature (1998)
  • 12. The Chicana Bandera: Sandra Cisneros in the Public Press—Constructing a Cultural Icon (1996-1999)
  • 13. The Tools in the Toolbox: Representing Work in Chicana Literature (1999)
  • 14. La Nueva Onda—The New Wave: Contemporary Chicana Writing (2001)
  • 15. Size 48D Bras and Men Who Wear Skirts: The Dialectics of Humor in Denise Chávez's Narratives (2001)
  • 16. The Archbishop Sees the Body of the Virgin: Art, Religion, Ideology, and Popular Culture (2001)
• Part III. Miscellaneous Essays on Chicana/Latina Literature
  • 17. Game Theory: A Typology of Feminist Players in Latina/Chicana Writing (1985)
  • 18. Art and Spiritual Politics: Sor Juana Beatriz de la Fuente—A Feminist Literary Perspective (1995)
  • 19. "Inheriting the Alphabet": Homeland and Exile in Marjorie Agosín (1997)
  • 20. Questioning Nepantla: The Land in Between—Geopolitical Tyrannies and Other Border Complexities (2002)
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

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A series of wide-ranging essays on the growth--and marginalization--of Chicana/Latina literature, criticism, and art.

About the Author

Tey Diana Rebolledo is Regents' Professor and Chair in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of New Mexico.