Radical Chicana Poetics

In This Bridge Called My Back, Gloria Anzaldua wrote: A woman who writes has power. A woman who writes is feared. In the eyes of the world this makes us dangerous beasts.' Her statement marked a moment of collective self-recognition. Radical Chicana Poetics considers this moment as a point of entry into Chicana writings.

Offering a transdisciplinary analysis of works by Gloria Anzaldua, Cherrie Moraga, Ana Castillo, Emma Perez, Alicia Gaspar de Alba, and Sandra Cisneros, this book explores how radical Chicanas deal with tensions that arise from their focus on the body, desire, and writing. Devling into the subtle differences between the poets, Ricardo F.

Vivancos Perez sheds new light on contemporary cultural production and feminist activism. Review: Vivancos Perez's book, Radical Chicana Poetics, is a superb theoretical analysis of the works of several Mexican American women authors including such luminaries as G. Anzaldua, C. Moraga, A. Castillo, E.

Perez, A. Gaspar de Alba, and S. Cisneros. Vivancos Perez brilliantly explores how these writers posit through their splendidly written creative work new subjectivities and sexualities as well as challenge, subvert, and deconstruct older conceptualizations of Chicanas written in the early years of the Chicano Movement.

Vivancos Perez offers new and exciting perspectives on these writers and the reader will be greatly rewarded from the splendid insights articulated in the book. - Maria Herrera-Sobek, Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity, Equity and Academic Policy, University of California Santa Barbara, USA