Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature

by Deborah L. Madsen

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... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 157003379X
• ISBN13: 9781570033797
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of South Carolina Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.4" x 7.3"

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The works of six notable Chicana authors

Understanding Contemporary Chicana Literature uses the works of six notable Chicana authors to reveal common themes, images and concerns which make their writing part of a larger growing Latina community of work. Prose, novels, poetry and short works of Bernize Zamora, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Denise Chavez, Alma Luz Villanueva and Lorna Dee Cervantes are considered in an assessment essential to any ethnic collection.