Includes bibliographical references (pages [109]-122) and index.
Contents
"Unir los lazos": braiding Chicana and Mexicana subjectivities -- Crossing borders and blurring boundaries: Sandra Cisneros re-visions the wailing woman -- "No dejen que se escapen": Carmen Boullosa and Laura Esquivel -- Acts of daily resistance in urban and rural settings: the fiction of Helena MarĂa Viramontes.