Postmodern Vernaculars : Chicana Literature and Postmodern Rhetoric
Publication Date
2005
Description
Postmodern Vernaculars examines the work of Chicana authors such as Gaspar de Alba, Anzaldúa, Cantú, Castillo, Cisneros, Mora, Pérez, and Viramontes in relation to theories of postmodernism. Working with a fluid concept of postmodernism, one that traces the term’s evolution from the 1960s to the present, this book argues that Chicana literature is one vernacular, a regional variation of postmodernism. Drawing on the interdisciplinary scholarship that postmodernism itself has enabled – specifically recent developments in the fields of geography, ethnography, photography, history, and linguistics – Postmodern Vernaculars shows that Chicana literature participates in the ongoing reconstruction of postmodernism. -- publisher
ISBN
9780820476346
Keywords
Postmodernism, Chicana, Authors, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, Gloria Anzaldúa, Norma Elia Cantú, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Pat Mora, Emma Pérez, Helena Maria Viramontes, American, Literature, Mexican, Women, Rhetoric, Vernacular
Disciplines
American Literature | Fiction | Literature in English, North America, Ethnic and Cultural Minority | Poetry
Publisher
Peter Lang
City
New York, New York
Department
English
Files
Recommended Citation
Mermann-Jozwiak, Elisabeth, "Postmodern Vernaculars : Chicana Literature and Postmodern Rhetoric" (2005). Faculty Books. 82.
https://digitalcommons.bucknell.edu/books/82