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Contents Acknowledgments ix Prologue: A Chicana Lesbian Scholar’s Tale xiii Introduction: History 1 1. Chicana Lesbian Fictions 9 2. The Mystery of the Weeping Woman 22 3. Black Velvet Fantasies: “The” Aztec Princess in the Chicana/o Sexual Imagination 42 4. Sor Juana and the Search for (Queer) Cultural Heroes 66 5. Memories of Girlhood: Chicana Lesbian Fictions 91 6. Shameless Histories: Talking Race/Talking Sex 128 7. Queer for the Revolution: The Representation of Politics and the Politics of Representation 145 8. Conclusion: With Her Machete in Her Hand 176 Appendix: Toward a Chronological Bibliography of Chicana Lesbian Fictions, 1971–2000 183 Notes 191 Bibliography 207 Index 243 THIS PAGE INTENTIONALLY LEFT BLANK ...

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