Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature : Manifestations of Feminist and Gay Identities

ISBN-13: 9780415541633 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 176 str.

Alma Rosa Alvarez

Opis

This book looks at how Chicana/o authors, who have experienced cultural disconnection because of their gender, gender politics or sexual orientation, attempt to forge a connection back to Chicana/o culture through their use of liberation theology.

Spis treści

Acknowledgments.  Introduction  1. The Problematics of Chican(o) Subjectivity  2. Liberation Theology: An Overview and its Transition into Chicano Contexts  3. Gloria Anzaldua’s Coatlicue State: A Postmodern Rupture into Liberation Theology  4. Ann Castillo’s Representation of the Seventeenth Century Mystical Nun Tradition: A Renarrativization of Catholic Feminist Agency in the Form of Liberation Theology  Appendix.  Notes.  Bibliography.  Index

O autorze

Alma Rosa Alvarez is Associate Professor of English and Writing at Southerrn Oregon University, US. Her research currently focuses on Mexican/Chicana/o Circular Migrations and issues of Nostalgia.