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Writing Chicana Identity: Strategies Of Resistance And Reformulation, Dora Ramirez-Dhoore

Dora Ramirez-Dhoore

My dissertation addresses the way Chicana writers are reformulating and revising stereotypes that have been defined by patriarchal discourse in literature, film, and websites. Images and cultural myths such as La Malinche, La Virgen de Guadalupe, curanderas, and others have often been misrepresented socially, historically, and politically; therefore these misconceptions must be addressed when interpreting literature and art created by Chicanas. In Chicano Narrative: The Dialectics of Difference , Ramon Saldivar explains that Chicano narratives, "must be understood as different from and in resistance to traditional American literature, yet must also be understood in their American context, for they take …