Chicana Traditions
Continuity and Change
Olga Nájera-Ramírez editor Norma E Cantu editor
Format:Paperback
Publisher:University of Illinois Press
Published:28th Feb '02
Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back
Chicana Traditions features essays from professionals engaged with a broad and ever-expanding Chicana expressive culture. Professors and students, performing artists and folklorists, and archivists and activists merge personal experience with formal discussion to share fascinating inside stories. The topics include a professional woman mariachi performer; the creation and evolution of the escaramuza charra (all-female precision riding team) within the male-dominated Mexican rodeo; the ranchera music of the transnational performer Lydia Mendoza, the complex crossover of Selena's Tejano music, and the bottle cap and jar lid art of Goldie Garcia.
An eye-opening journey through a borderland where cultures and identities converge, Chicana Traditions reveals how Chicanas continue to invent, reshape, and transcend their traditional culture.
Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award given by the Joint Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, 2003. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003.
"A fascinating read which spans the gap between Chicana literary and art criticism."--Enrique R. Lamadrid, author of Nuevo México Profundo
"Those who want to avoid the cliches of tradition vs. modernity or the implicit dichotomies set up by opposing culture to feminism will find that this rich set of essays opens the doors to a broad range of options inherent in Mexican American traditions as well as to its restraints."--Beverly Stoeltje, Indiana University
- Winner of <DIV>Winner of the Susan Koppelman Award given by the Joint Women's Caucus of the Popular Culture Association and American Culture Association, 2003. A CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title, 2003.</DIV> 2003
ISBN: 9780252070129
Dimensions: 229mm x 152mm x 20mm
Weight: 426g
280 pages