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100 1 $aBost, Suzanne.
245 10 $aEncarnación :$billness and body politics in Chicana feminist literature /$cSuzanne Bost.
250 $a1st ed.
260 $aNew York :$bFordham University Press,$c2010.
300 $ax, 234 p., [12] p. of plates :$bcol. ill. ;$c23 cm.
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 215-227) and index.
505 0 $aFeeling pre-Columbian: Chicana feminists' imaginative historiography -- Pain: Gloria Anzaldúa's challenge to "women's health" -- Medicine: Cherríe Moraga's boundary violations -- Movement: Ana Castillo's shape-shifting identities -- Conclusion. Rethinking body politics: Maya González and Diane Gamboa.
520 $aEncarnacion takes a new look at identity. Following the contemporary movement away from the fixed categories of identity politics toward a more fluid conception of the intersections between identities and communities, this book analyzes the ways in which literature and philosophy draw boundaries around identity.The works of Gloria Anzald a, Cherr e Moraga, and Ana Castillo, in particular, enable us to examine how identities shift and intersect with others through processes of "incarnation." Since the 1980s, critics have come to equate these writers with Chicana feminist identity politics. This critical trend, however, has been unable to account for these writers' increasing emphasis on bodies that are sick, disabled, permeable, and, oftentimes, mystical.Encarnaci n thus turns our attention to aspects of these writers' work that are usually ignored--Anzald a's autobiographical writings about diabetes, Moraga's narrative about her premature baby's medical treatments, and Castillo's figure of a polio-afflicted flamenco dancer--to explore the political and cultural dimensions of illness.Concerned equally with the medical-surgical interventions available in our postmodern age and with the ways of understanding bodies in the Native American and Catholic traditions these writers invoke, Encarnaci n develops a model for identity that expands beyond the boundaries of individual bodies. The book argues that this model has greater utility for feminism than identity politics because it values human variability, sensation, and openness to others. The methodology of the study is as permeable as the bodies and identities it analyzes. The book brings together discourses as disparate as Mesoamerican anthropology, art history, feminist spirituality, feminist biology, phenomenology, postmodern theory, disability studies, and autobiographical narrative in order to expand our thinking beyond what disciplinary boundaries allow.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xMexican American authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism.
650 0 $aDiseases in literature.
650 0 $aHuman body in literature.
650 0 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature.
650 0 $aMexican American women in literature.
650 0 $aMexican Americans$xRace identity.
650 0 $aFeminism in literature.
650 0 $aFeminism and literature$zUnited States$xHistory$y20th century.
650 12 $aMedicine in Literature.
650 22 $aDisease.
650 22 $aFeminism.
650 22 $aMexican Americans.
650 22 $aSocial Identification.
650 22 $aWomen's Health.
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655 7 $aHistory.$2fast
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