Contemporary Chicana Poetry |
Preface |
I— Setting the Context: Gender, Ethnicity, and Silence in Contemporary Chicana Poetry |
II— The Birthing of the Poetic "I" in Alma Villanueva's Mother, May I? The Search for a Female Identity |
III— The Chicana as Scribe: Harmonizing Gender and Culture in Lorna Dee Cervantes' "Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway" |
IV— Prohibition and Sexuality in Lucha Corpi's Palabras De Mediodia / Noon Words |
V— The Dramatization of a Shifting Poetic Consciousness: Bernice Zamora's Restless Serpents |
Afterword |
Appendix A— Poems from Bloodroot by Alma Villanueva |
Appendix B— Poems from Alma Villanueva's Irvine Collection |
Appendix C— Mother, May I? By Alma Villanueva |
Part I |
Part II |
Part III |
Notes |
Bibliography |
Index |