Offers examples of oral narratives and literature from the nineteenth century to the present

Product Description: This first book-length analysis of the Chicana literary tradition traces the development of Chicana literature from 1848 to the present. Rebolledo discusses major writers' works, important myths and archetypes, and key theoretical issues; she then shows the ways in which Chicana writers explore subjectivity and identity in their writing, the struggle Chicana writers have faced in finding their voices and developing a strong and ethnically tagged language, and the ways they have broken taboos by transgressing into traditionally male spaces...read more

Product Description: At the height of the Great Depression of the 1930's, the administration of U. S. President Franklin Roosevelt instituted a Federal Writers Project as part of a larger Works Progress Administration (WPA), massive national undertakings aimed at getting the nation back to work...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)