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Castillo may in fact be referencing the shift from Mexican American
assimilationist politics to the more militant Chicano Movement era in her
final lines. “Now” is the time to stop bowing and to reclaim Chicano
history and culture. Certainly, her invocation of “Nahuatl” – an Aztec
language – is a signal that all has not been forever lost. The process of
relearning and rebuilding a Chicano culture despite conquest and
subjugation is the project that must be done now.
Although there are many areas in which African American women
and Chicanas differed from their male counterparts, it is misleading to
think of them as always in opposition. To do so would imply that there
are in fact two movements within both the Black Power/Black Arts and
Chicano movements. In the area of citizenship and colonization, the
women and the men were actually in much more agreement than
disagreement, at least in the poetry that they produced. By examining
how both groups responded to U.S. rhetorical constructions of the nation
and national subjects, we gain insight into how African Americans and
Chicanos sought to redefine their groups and their place within the
national framework.
Object Description
| Title | "As shelters against the cold": women writers of the Black Arts and Chicano movements, 1965-1978 |
| Author | Ryder, Ulli Kira |
| Author email | uryder@usc.edu; uryder@gmail.com |
| Degree | Doctor of Philosophy |
| Document type | Dissertation |
| Degree program | American Studies & Ethnicity |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2008-08-27 |
| Date submitted | 2008 |
| Restricted until | Restricted until 27 October 2010. |
| Date published | 2010-10-27 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | McKenna, Teresa |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Sanchez, George J. Johnson, Dana |
| Abstract | This dissertation examines the work of women writers in the Black Arts and Chicano movements during the years 1965-1978. I argue that understanding the intersectional nature of the women's experiences is crucial for understanding their literary output. Further, I argue that Chicanas and African American women of this era challenged homogenous notions of community and racial identity and that we can trace the development of the Third World feminism and multiculturalism that came to the fore in the 1980s to this earlier period. Thus, this study also impacts the way we conceptualize identity formation and the creation of the literary canon. Investigating the ways in which these women integrated nationalist and feminist rhetoric and activism in their work is crucial for a full understanding of this critical period in U.S. history. At stake is an understanding of how Chicana and African American women in the United States have formed identities and communities; struggled for liberation and equality; and become part of the U.S. literary canon. |
| Keyword | Black Power; Black Arts movement; Chicano movement; civil rights; racial identity formation; womanism; borderlands theory; feminism; Third World feminism; nationalism; intersectionality |
| Geographic subject (country) | USA |
| Coverage date | 1965/1978 |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Provenance | Electronically uploaded by the author |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m1698 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Rights | Ryder, Ulli Kira |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Filename | etd-Ryder-2415 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Ryder-2415.pdf |
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| Title | Page 99 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 94 Castillo may in fact be referencing the shift from Mexican American assimilationist politics to the more militant Chicano Movement era in her final lines. “Now” is the time to stop bowing and to reclaim Chicano history and culture. Certainly, her invocation of “Nahuatl” – an Aztec language – is a signal that all has not been forever lost. The process of relearning and rebuilding a Chicano culture despite conquest and subjugation is the project that must be done now. Although there are many areas in which African American women and Chicanas differed from their male counterparts, it is misleading to think of them as always in opposition. To do so would imply that there are in fact two movements within both the Black Power/Black Arts and Chicano movements. In the area of citizenship and colonization, the women and the men were actually in much more agreement than disagreement, at least in the poetry that they produced. By examining how both groups responded to U.S. rhetorical constructions of the nation and national subjects, we gain insight into how African Americans and Chicanos sought to redefine their groups and their place within the national framework. |
