Radical Chicana Poetics

Disclaimer, Captatio Malevolentiae, or Are Nos/otros Ready to Move On? A Note About Language and Terminology Introduction: Fearing the "Dangerous Beasts:" Radical Chicana Poetics PART I: DANGEROUS BODIES / TEXTS Juncture Polycentricity 1. Gloria Anzaldúa's Poetics: The Process of Writing Borderlands 2. Cherríe Moraga's 'Theory in the Flesh' and the Chicana Subject Juncture Collective Creativity PART II: (RE)POSITIONINGS Juncture Nepantlism 3. The Nomadic Chicana Writer in Ana Castillo and Emma Pérez Juncture Antiacademicism 4. Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Sor Juana as Symbolic Foremother PART III. Global Interventions Juncture 'Compostura' 5. Weaving Texts and Selves in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo Juncture Transdisciplinarity 6. The Juárez Murders, Chicana Poetics and Human Rights Discourse Epilogue: The Coyolxauhqui Imperative and the Critic