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Anzaldúa’s borderland is thus the geographic space of the U.S.-Mexico
border but also a metaphoric, emotional space. Both are occupied by “the
prohibited and forbidden.” She tellingly does not say it is occupied by
Chicano/as. The resistance to narrowing the inhabitants of the
borderlands to a specific racial/ethnic group leaves open the border as a
territory that can be occupied by people marginalized on a number of
fronts. For Anzaldúa, and many of the women of the Chicano movement,
the occupants of the borderlands include women, feminists and lesbians
as they are “prohibited and forbidden” under prevailing constructions of
the Chicano nation as posited by such frameworks as El Plan Espiritual de
Aztlán.
The place of women within the Chicano movement is complicated
by the particular identities of the women in question. It is not enough to
say the Chicanas resisted patriarchy within the movement (however true
that may be), we must also be mindful of the ways in which individual
Chicana’s identities operated and influenced the ways in which they
responded to the movement as a whole. Thus, as Carbado would argue in
another context, at stake was not simply the Chicana’s status identities as
Chicanas (that is, as racialized women) but also their performance
identities – the particularities of each women’s identity and how it is/was
enacted publicly. In other words, while all women in the Chicano
movement may have had to contend with patriarchy, women who further
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 124 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 119 Anzaldúa’s borderland is thus the geographic space of the U.S.-Mexico border but also a metaphoric, emotional space. Both are occupied by “the prohibited and forbidden.” She tellingly does not say it is occupied by Chicano/as. The resistance to narrowing the inhabitants of the borderlands to a specific racial/ethnic group leaves open the border as a territory that can be occupied by people marginalized on a number of fronts. For Anzaldúa, and many of the women of the Chicano movement, the occupants of the borderlands include women, feminists and lesbians as they are “prohibited and forbidden” under prevailing constructions of the Chicano nation as posited by such frameworks as El Plan Espiritual de Aztlán. The place of women within the Chicano movement is complicated by the particular identities of the women in question. It is not enough to say the Chicanas resisted patriarchy within the movement (however true that may be), we must also be mindful of the ways in which individual Chicana’s identities operated and influenced the ways in which they responded to the movement as a whole. Thus, as Carbado would argue in another context, at stake was not simply the Chicana’s status identities as Chicanas (that is, as racialized women) but also their performance identities – the particularities of each women’s identity and how it is/was enacted publicly. In other words, while all women in the Chicano movement may have had to contend with patriarchy, women who further |
