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F O R D H A M U N I V E R S I T Y P R E S S NewYork / 2010 Encarnación I L L N E S S A N D B O D Y P O L I T I C S I N C H I C A N A F E M I N I S T L I T E R A T U R E S U Z A N N E B O S T Copyright 䉷 2010 Fordham University Press All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—electronic, mechanical , photocopy, recording, or any other—except for brief quotations in printed reviews, without the prior permission of the publisher. Fordham University Press has no responsibility for the persistence or accuracy of URLs for external or third-party Internet websites referred to in this publication and does not guarantee that any content on such websites is, or will remain, accurate or appropriate. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bost, Suzanne. Encarnación : illness and body politics in Chicana feminist literature / Suzanne Bost.—1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-0-8232-3084-6 (cloth : alk. paper)—ISBN 978-0-8232-3085-3 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. American literature—Mexican American authors—History and criticism. 2. American literature—Women authors—History and criticism. 3. Diseases in literature. 4. Human body in literature. 5. Identity (Psychology) in literature. 6. Mexican American women in literature. 7. Mexican Americans—Race identity. 8. Feminism in literature. 9. Feminism and literature—United States—History—20th century. I. Title. PS153.M4B67 2010 810.9⬘3561082—dc22 2009032186 Printed in the United States of America 12 11 10 5 4 3 2 1 First edition ...

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