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new way to read black women’s writing and indeed offers new inroads
into our understanding of African American literature, whether written by
men or women.
For Chicanas, their involvement in el movimiento and with other
political movements altered the way they thought of themselves and
positioned themselves within their communities and the larger U.S.
context.9 As previously discussed, Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands theory
opened a new way of conceptualizing Chicano/a culture and the forces
exerted both on and by Chicano/as and Anglo America. Further,
Anzaldúa and others rewrote and revisioned Mexican myths from a
Chicana feminist perspective thereby empowering Chicanas in new ways.
As Anzaldúa states:
There are certain myths – the stories of Coatilcue, la
Lllorona, la Chingada, la Virgen de Guagalupe, and
Coyolxauhqui, the moon goddess – that I associate
with women. I want to take these figures and rewrite
their stories. The figures we’re given have been
written from the male patriarchal perspective. . .The
dominant patriarchal culture betrayed these female
figures. . . First of all the indigenous males sold out
their goddesses by driving them underground, by
making them bad, by making them insignificant. The
contemporary Chicano and Mexican culture has done
the same thing by making one woman, la Chingada,
responsible for the loss of the indigenous tribes to the
Spanish conquerors. . . Making a connection between
all these oppressions and figures . . . helps me
formulate theories about where the oppressions
connect and where I can create empowering ways . . .
10
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 182 |
| Contributing entity | University of Southern California |
| Repository email | cisadmin@lib.usc.edu |
| Full text | 177 new way to read black women’s writing and indeed offers new inroads into our understanding of African American literature, whether written by men or women. For Chicanas, their involvement in el movimiento and with other political movements altered the way they thought of themselves and positioned themselves within their communities and the larger U.S. context.9 As previously discussed, Gloria Anzaldúa’s borderlands theory opened a new way of conceptualizing Chicano/a culture and the forces exerted both on and by Chicano/as and Anglo America. Further, Anzaldúa and others rewrote and revisioned Mexican myths from a Chicana feminist perspective thereby empowering Chicanas in new ways. As Anzaldúa states: There are certain myths – the stories of Coatilcue, la Lllorona, la Chingada, la Virgen de Guagalupe, and Coyolxauhqui, the moon goddess – that I associate with women. I want to take these figures and rewrite their stories. The figures we’re given have been written from the male patriarchal perspective. . .The dominant patriarchal culture betrayed these female figures. . . First of all the indigenous males sold out their goddesses by driving them underground, by making them bad, by making them insignificant. The contemporary Chicano and Mexican culture has done the same thing by making one woman, la Chingada, responsible for the loss of the indigenous tribes to the Spanish conquerors. . . Making a connection between all these oppressions and figures . . . helps me formulate theories about where the oppressions connect and where I can create empowering ways . . . 10 |
