Cristina Herrera

ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature (eBook, ePUB)

Brown and Nerdy

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Combining the sociopolitical consciousness of Chicanisma with one aligned to the well-known image of the "nerd", ChicaNerds learn to navigate the many complicated layers of coming to an empowered declaration of themselves as smart Chicanas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 176
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000091946
• Artikelnr.: 59751768

Autorenporträt

Cristina Herrera holds a PhD in English from Claremont Graduate University and is currently Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno. She is the author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script. Cristina has also coedited multiple anthologies, including Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx Young Adult Literature (with Trevor Boffone and Voices of Resistance: Essays on Chican@ Children's Literature (coeditor with Laura Alamillo and Larissa M. Mercado-López). Journal publications include "Seeking Refuge Under the Mesquite: Nature Imagery in Guadalupe García McCall's Verse Novel" (Children's Literature Association Quarterly, Summer 2019), "Soy Brown y Nerdy: The ChicaNerd in Chicana Young Adult (YA) Literature" (The Lion and the Unicorn: A Critical Journal of Children's Literature, Fall 2017), and "Cinco Hermanitas: Myth and Sisterhood in Guadalupe García McCall's Summer of the Mariposas" (Children's Literature, 2016), among others.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy
Chapter One: Not Your Nerd or "At-Risk" Chicana Student: On ChicaNerds and
Stereotypes
Chapter Two: "Those White Girls Don't Like It": Community and ChicaNerd
Feminist Resistance in Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández's White Bread Competition
Chapter Three: "The College Girl from the Barrio": Calculus and
ChicaNerdiness in What Can(t) Wait
Chapter Four: Theater and Chicana Poetic Development in Guadalupe García
McCall's Under the Mesquite
Chapter Five: Band Shirts and Rebellion: Resisting the "Buena Hija" Trope
through Nerdiness in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter
Chapter Six: "Tis the Life of a Misunderstood Teenage Poet": ChicaNerd
Poetics in Gabi, A Girl in Pieces
Chapter Seven: To Be or Not to Be: Shakespeare, College, and Chicana
Feminist Consciousness in Ghosts of El Grullo
Conclusion: Reflections from a (grownup) ChicaNerd: Or, Why I Wrote This
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