Toward a Latina Feminism of the Americas: Repression and Resistance in Chicana and Mexicana Literature

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index academy, 91, 92–93, 96 adolescence, 7, 84 Against All Odds (Macías), 9 Alarcón, Norma: “Chicana Feminism,” 3; “Chicana’s Feminist Literature,” 12; “Cognitive Desires,” 100n11 Alcalá, Rita Cano: on La Malinche , 101n21 Alcoff, Linda: on feminisms, 106n17 Algonquin. See Kickapoo American Dream, 24, 29, 34 American literature, 4; fiction, 5 American studies, 2, 4, 100n7 Anaya, Rudolfo, 2 Anglo community, 69 Antes (Boullosa), 49, 54, 105n7 Anzaldúa, Gloria, 14, 34–35; on “homophobia,” 93–94, 95, 97–98; teorias, 19, 44, 47 Anzaldúa, Gloria, works of: Borderlands/La Frontera, 20–21, 41, 101n20; Making Face, Making Soul, 11, 19–20; This Bridge Called My Back, 11, 19. See also individual titles Arredondo, Inés, 104n2 Arte Publico Press, 68 biases, 46, 47, 58, 92 border, U.S.-Mexico, 70, 82, 106n16 Borderlands/La Frontera (Anzaldúa), 15, 20, 41, 47, 101n20 Border Patrol, 71, 82. See also La Migra Boullosa, Carmen, 7, 56–57, 104n2; awards, 107n7; reception of, 46; and La Salvaja as symbol, 46–57 Boullosa, Carmen, works of: Antes, 49, 54; Cleopatra Dismounts , 105n8; La salvaja, 47–54; “La Salvaja” (poem), 17, 18, 46; Leaving Tabasco, 105n8; Mejor desaparece, 54–57; Papeles irresponsables , 105n7; They're Cows, We're Pigs, 105n8. See also individual titles Building with Our Hands (de la Torre, Pesquera), 10 California, 66, 86, 104n2 Canada: Salvadoran community , 100n7 “Cariboo Café” (Viramontes), 17, 65, 70–80, 81, 82 124 toward a latina feminism of the americas “Cartographies of Struggle” (Mohanty), 65 Castañeda, Antonia, 102n1 Castellanos, Rosario, 58, 101n14, 104n2; Mujer que sabe Latín, 9–10 Castillo, Ana, 95; Massacre of the Dreamers, 10; “Xicanisma ,” 10 Castillo, Debra, 5, 107n8; Talking Back, 100n9 Catholic Church, 8–9, 15 Central America, 3, 67 Chabram, Angie: “I Throw Punches for My Race,” 3 Chávez, César, 81 Chevigny, Bell: Reinventing the Americas, 3–4 Chicana, 1–2, 5, 6, 21–22, 23, 59, 65, 120n2, 106n5; critics, 2, 19, 45; definition of, 99n2; feminism, 64, 91; literature, 1–2, 3, 5, 7, 8–9, 10, 11, 16, 30, 45, 91, 105n5; and transnationalism , 97; writers, 18, 30–32, 44, 45, 46, 59, 68–69, 93, 95, 102n2, 105n2, 106n5, 106n7 “Chicana Feminism” (Alarc ón), 3 The Chicana Feminist, (Cotera), 10 Chicana/o studies, 2, 91–93 “Chicana's Feminist Literature” (Alarcón), 12 Chicano movement, 3, 7, 91, 101n22 Chicano Narrative (Saldívar), 3 Christianity, 15 Chungara, Domitila Barrios de, 70 Cisneros, Sandra, 16–18, 21–22, 32–33, 46, 95, 103n15; on La Llorona, 43–44; “loose woman,” 47, 64 Cisneros, Sandra, works of: The House on Mango Street, 17, 21, 34–36, 49; Loose Woman, 49; My Wicked, Wicked Ways, 105n10; “Woman Hollering Creek,” 17, 21, 33–34; Woman Hollering Creek and Other Stories, 32–33, 49, 68. See also individual titles “Cognitive Desires” (Alarcón), 100n11 Colegio de Mexico, 45 colonialism: European, 106n16; U.S., 2, 7, 11, 41, 106n4 Como agua para chocolate (Esquivel ), 17, 58. See also Like Water for Chocolate conquest, Spanish, 11, 15, 35, 43 Constantino, Roselyn, 45; “Resistant Creativity,” 47 corrido, 3 Cotera, Marta: The Chicana Feminist, 10; Diosa y Hembra , 10 coyote, 104n19 Culture and Truth (Rosaldo), 3 de la Cruz, Sor Juana Inés, 9, 58, 104n2 de la Torre, Adela: Building with Our Hands, 10 Del Castillo, Adelaida: Mexican Women in the U.S.: Struggles Past and Present , 10 index 125 “The Development of Chicana Feminist Discourse, 1970– 1980” (Garcia), 10 “dialectics of difference,” 3, 100n5 The Dialectics of Our America, (Saldívar-Hull), 4, 5 Diego, Juan, 14–15 Diosa y Hembra (Cotera), 10 Do the Americas Have a Common Literature? (PerezFirmat ), 4–5 La doble jornada (Mexico City), 9 domestic violence, 7, 9, 37, 38 Dutton Press, 68 El Salvador, 77, 107n9 Enriquez, Evangelina, 13 Esquivel, Laura, 18, 57, 60, 104n2; Como agua para Chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate), 17, 45, 58, 64 Essays on la Mujer (MartinezCruz ), 10 family, 8, 17–18, 19, 102 father, 54–57 Fem, 9 feminism, 6, 58; border, 8, 20– 21, 70; bridge, 19; Chicana/ Mexicana, 9, 11, 100n13; Hispanic, 5; international, 17; Latin American, 5, 11; third-world, 18, 65, 102n3; transnational, 91, 93–94; U.S., 10 “Feminism on the Border” (Saldívar-Hull), 3 “Feminisms in Latin America” (Saporta-Sternbach), 10 Feminist Theory from Margin to Center (hooks), 107n4 Fernández Retamar, Roberto, 4...