This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. Adrianna M. Santos aims to contribute to a broader conversation concerning the intersections between Chicana literature and decolonial trauma theory, one which questions the colonial matrix of power and the universality of Western knowledge. Santos argues that Chicana survival narratives arise out of colonial wounds and form scars that both mark and protect the violated body.Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlandsproposes a...
This book explores how Chicana literature often represents gender violence while simultaneously presenting strategies of survival in response. Adriann...
