| Postmodern Vernaculars: Chicana Literature and Postmodern Rhetoric Contributor(s): Mermann-Jozwiak, Elisabeth (Author) |
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ISBN: 082047634X ISBN-13: 9780820476346 Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi OUR PRICE: $32.44 Product Type: Paperback Published: July 2005 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Literary Criticism | American - General - History | Europe - General - Social Science | Anthropology - Cultural & Social |
| Dewey: 810.986 |
| LCCN: 2004027487 |
| Physical Information: 147 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Postmodern Vernaculars examines the work of Chicana authors such as Gaspar de Alba, Anzald a, Cant , Castillo, Cisneros, Mora, P rez, and Viramontes in relation to theories of postmodernism. Working with a fluid concept of postmodernism, one that traces the term's evolution from the 1960s to the present, this book argues that Chicana literature is one vernacular, a regional variation of postmodernism. Drawing on the interdisciplinary scholarship that postmodernism itself has enabled - specifically recent developments in the fields of geography, ethnography, photography, history, and linguistics - Postmodern Vernaculars shows that Chicana literature participates in the ongoing reconstruction of postmodernism. |