Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art

by Marci R. McMahon

Book Overview

Winner of the 2014 NACCS Tejas Non-Fiction Book Award

This interdisciplinary study explores how US Mexicana and Chicana authors and artists across different historical periods and regions use domestic space to actively claim their own histories. Through "negotiation"--a concept that accounts for artistic practices outside the duality of resistance/accommodation--and "self-fashioning," Marci R. McMahon demonstrates how the very sites...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0813560942
• ISBN13: 9780813560946
• Release Date: July 2013
• Publisher: Rutgers University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"