Telling Border Life Stories: Four Mexican American Women Writers (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781623498191)

Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the American Southwest.

Until recently, little attention has been paid to the writing of the women included in this study. As Kabalen de Bichara notes, it is precisely such historical exclusion of texts written by Mexican American women that gives particular significance to the reexamination of the five autobiographical works that provide the focus for this in-depth study.

These border autobiographies can be understood as attempts on the part of the Mexican American female autobiographers to put themselves into the text and thus write their experiences into existence.

Author: Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara
ISBN-10: 1623498198
ISBN-13: 9781623498191
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Language: English
Published: 08/14/2019
Pages: 248
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.80lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.60d