CHICANA/FEMINIST IN WORDS

HER REFLECTION

Double Consciousness? Triple Consciousness

Third Space as a border space-the inbetween consciousness

Chicana feminism originates in the community and on the streets as political activism to end the oppression of women. (421)

Chicana-identified critic, alert to the relationships between her work and the political situation of all Chicanas.

STRUGGLE TO SEE HERSELF

Struggle to appropriate the “I” of literary discourse.

Struggle for empowerment in the economic, social,, and political spheres.

Different from mainstream feminism and different from a Chicano perspective.

Race, culture, social critics, class but neglected gender and sexuality.

BRIDGE CALLED MY BACK

1981: “documented the rage and frustration of women of color with the white women’s movement, not only for the racism, the tokenism, the exclusion and invisibility of women of color, but also for ignoring the issues of working-class women of color (such as forced-sterilization).

Love of Chicanas for themselves and each other as Chicanas.

WHAT IS HER MISSION?

To show, in words, elements of gender, race, culture, and class.

Multiple connotations of color and femaleness of class and culture within the dominant culture.

Chicanas reject definition.

The refuse objectification imposed by gender roles and racial and economic exploitation

OBSTACLES TO SELF-EXPRESSION

Have to overcome external, material obstacles to writing

Limited access to literacy and the means of literary production

Finding time and leisure to write, given the battle for economic survival.

Must draw from the deep-core of their identity as working-class women of color who belong to a culture other than the dominant one.

Quote about Anzaldúa on 422 “Speaking in Tongues”

HOUSE ON MANGO STREET

Esperanza is a critical eye to what will befall working-class Chicanas if they don’t become educated and WRITE!

Esperanza seeks self-empowerment through writing, while recognizing her commitment to a community of Chicanas.

Passed down the power of writing and of women through the publication of her book. Shows community with other women.

CHICANA ARTISTS

Mestizaje Literary and Artisitic Forms since the Movement

JUDITH BACAThe Great Wall of Los Angeles

SANTA BARRAZAFour Decades of Chicana Art and Culture in Tejas and Beyond

CARMEN LOMAS GARZA

Curadera

ESTER HERNÁNDEZ

YOLANDA LÓPEZ

Lady of Guadalupe

PATRICIA RODRÍGUEZ

Retablo

PATSSI VALDEZ

The Dream