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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 323–347.
Published: 01 October 2020
...Laura Halperin Abstract In this article, Laura Halperin reads Chicana writer Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street as a disidentificatory, revisionist, and intersectional collection of fairy tales. Halperin builds on critical scholarship about The House on Mango Street and fairy tales...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (S1): 169–195.
Published: 01 December 2020
..., and writings by Sandra Cisneros and John Rechy—expand the queer and Chicana identifications and desires, and contest narrow, patriarchal nationalisms. By deploying critical race psychoanalysis and semiotics, we can unpack the libidinal investments in the brown female body, as seen in both in popular...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 201–224.
Published: 01 September 2004
... for sexuality and desire in Chicano/a imaginaries. In conclusion, reading Lopez's artistic reimaginings of the Virgin of Guadalupe through Sandra Cisneros's desire to see the Virgin's brown body has revealed the constitutive lack that fuels all Chicano/a identifications with the Virgin of Guadalupe. It becomes...
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Meridians (2003) 3 (2): 139–170.
Published: 01 March 2003
... identity-of belonging and betrayal -emerge as central tropes in the writings of many Chicanas, particularly those who identify as lesbian or as otherwise sexually transgressive. Writers such as Anzaldua, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Cherrie Moraga, Terri de la Pefia, and Emma Perez have persisted...
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Meridians (2020) 19 (2): 239–249.
Published: 01 October 2020
... the argument that Laura Halperin makes in her essay, “Not No Rapunzel: The House on Mango Street’ s Revised Ever After.” Here, Halperin deploys José Esteban Muñoz’s theorization of Latino dissemblance along with “Third World feminist analysis” to make the case that Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street...
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Meridians (2017) 15 (2): 491–506.
Published: 01 March 2017
... in Sandra Cisneros' fiction proved pivotal to my own analysis of spatiality and sociality in Marshall's novel (Brady 1999). 5. Massey argues, "The argument emerged out of an earlier insistence on thinking of space, not as some absolute independent dimension, but as constructed out of social relations...
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“Rubbed Inflections of Litany and Myth”: Ciguapismo in Rhina P. Espaillat’s Feminist Poetics of Loss
Meridians (2022) 21 (2): 371–396.
Published: 01 October 2022
... Association Conference where I first presented these ideas. This research was made possible in part through the support of the Canada Research Chairs Program. 1 The titular story from Woman Hollering Creek ( 1991 ) by Chicana feminist Sandra Cisneros is a notable example of how a negative female...
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Meridians (2004) 5 (1): 1–26.
Published: 01 September 2004
... remembers and honors her own experiences, as well as the realities of her mother and grandmother, Mariko, Norabelle, and all the girls in her neighborhood, offering us a model of understanding and compassion. Her comics thus share the womanist impulse of Sandra Cisneros's TheHouseon Man.goStreet,which...
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Meridians (2007) 7 (2): 1–21.
Published: 01 March 2007
... and control over her body and self reflect the work ofXicanistas including Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, and Cherrie Moraga. Importantly, however, JV's lyrics often slip into dichotomous notions of gender and use sexist language in order to express power over others. "WOMEN'S LIB" JVdefines herself...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 149–175.
Published: 01 March 2005
... it refreshingly bold. The opening pages showcase words of praise from cultural critics Ilan Slavans and Jose Limon. Renowned Chicana authors Sandra Cisneros and Gloria Anzaldua also declare their admiration for Behar's text. Anzaldua, who urged Behar to write courageously, describes the text as, "Afinely crafted...
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Meridians (2005) 5 (2): 89–103.
Published: 01 March 2005
... and Practice,ed. Marianne DeKoven, 13-36. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press. Harding, Sandra. 1986. FromtheWoman Questionin Scienceto theScienceQuestionin Feminism. Ithaca: Cornell University Press. Hochschild, Arlie Russell. 1989. 2003. TheSecondShift: Working Parents and the Revolution.New York...
