Negotiating feminisms : Sandra Cisneros and Ana Castillo's intergenerational women / Eilidh AB Hall.

Negotiating Feminisms examines intergenerational feminism in Chicanx family life. It analyses literary representations of the ways that Chicanas negotiate feminisms in the family across generations, through the maintenance, contestation, and adaptation of traditional gender roles. Using an original...

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Main Author: Hall, Eilidh AB (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2021]
Series:Literatures of the Americas.
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Summary:Negotiating Feminisms examines intergenerational feminism in Chicanx family life. It analyses literary representations of the ways that Chicanas negotiate feminisms in the family across generations, through the maintenance, contestation, and adaptation of traditional gender roles. Using an original theoretical lens of negotiation to read the works of Ana Castillo and Sandra Cisneros, this book unpacks intergenerational resistance to patriarchal oppression. This book shows how the works of Cisneros and Castillo articulate a politics of negotiation that critiques the gendered ideologies and roles of the family. In doing so, the books discussion not only engages with literary representations but also connects these representations to the contextual experience of Chicanx family life. This book calls for a rethinking of women characters beyond limited, and limiting, familial roles and uses the framework of feminist negotiation as a means to explore the empowering possibilities of intergenerational female relationships.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xi, 225 pages).
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:3030506371
9783030506377
Source of Description, Etc. Note:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 06, 2021).