Saddling La Gringa

Saddling La Gringa
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages : 188
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ISBN-10 : 9780313091094
ISBN-13 : 0313091099
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Download or read book Saddling La Gringa written by Phillipa Kafka and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2000-09-30 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Because of their ethnic identity, Latinas sometimes face discrimination in the United States. Latinas are additionally oppressed because of their gender—because they are women, they hold a subordinate position in patriarchal Latino culture. The oppression of Latinas is maintained through various cultural mechanisms, which sustain power relations based on gender. This book gives special attention to the role of female cultural gatekeepers in novels by contemporary Latina writers. These gatekeepers enforce and perpetuate patriarchal cultural constraints onto future generations of Latinas. They construct and police female identity, including their own, through the use of idiomatic expressions, epithets, jokes, morality tales, and myths. The volume begins by examining Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent Dancing, a work that clearly illustrates the role of gatekeepers in perpetuating gendered power relations. It then turns to the writings of Christina García, Julia Alvarez, Rosario Ferre, and Magali Garcia Ramis. Through their highly critical yet loving characterizations of female gatekeepers, these Latina writers suggest a different way of life for Latinas, a feminist way.


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