Contemporary Chicana Poetry
  Preface

 collapse sectionI—  Setting the Context:  Gender, Ethnicity, and Silence in Contemporary Chicana Poetry
 •The Historical Context
 •The Literary Paradigm
 •Oral Versus Written Traditions
 •Distribution and Access
 •Poetry:  The Chosen Form of Expression
 •The Implied Audience
 collapse sectionII—  The Birthing of the Poetic "I" in Alma Villanueva's Mother, May I?  The Search for a Female Identity
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 •Bloodroot and the Irvine Poems
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 •Summary of Mother, May I?
 •Metaphors, Oppositions, and Transformations
 •Social Oppositions
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 •The Readers in Mother, May I?
 collapse sectionIII—  The Chicana as Scribe:  Harmonizing Gender and Culture in Lorna Dee Cervantes' "Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway"
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 •"Uncle's First Rabbit"
 •"Beneath the Shadow of the Freeway"
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 collapse sectionIV—  Prohibition and Sexuality in Lucha Corpi's Palabras De Mediodia / Noon Words
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 •"Tres Mujeres" / "Three Women"
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 •Veracruz and San Luis Potosí:  Landscapes Revisited
 •"Cofradía De Inservibles" and "La Ciega":  Prohibition of Sexuality
 •"Puente De Cristal" and "Pasión Sin Nombre":  Sexual Desire Sublimated
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 •The Marina Poems
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 •"Romance Tejido"
 •"Romance Negro"
 collapse sectionV—  The Dramatization of a Shifting Poetic Consciousness:  Bernice Zamora's Restless Serpents
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  Afterword
  Appendix A—  Poems from Bloodroot by Alma Villanueva
  Appendix B—  Poems from Alma Villanueva's Irvine Collection
 collapse sectionAppendix C— Mother, May I? By Alma Villanueva
 collapse sectionPart I
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 collapse sectionNotes
 •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
 collapse sectionBibliography
 •Primary Sources
 •Secondary Sources
 collapse sectionIndex
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