Titlebook: Collective Identity and Cultural Resistance in Contemporary Chicana/o Autobiography; Juan Velasco Book 2016 The Editor(s) (if applicable)

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The ,, wheel of interconnecting opposites—a fractured identity always transforming, and a rejection of “tradition” as a static Mexican-Americanness. Chicana feminist thought connects images of wholeness to a healing, interconnecting sense of representation that allows them to transcend narrow understandings of self and culture.

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Conclusion: Interrelationality, postnationalism, transnation, and trans-Americanity, and its interconnections with communal expression and identity, allow for new cultural expressions where Chicana/o . becomes a source for empowerment in the new century.

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Culture as Resistance,ution with the Mexican-Americanness recreated by Chicana/o autobiographies. These works depict the Mexican-American experience as a space in between and across cultures, but they also place the struggle for culture (as an “unfamiliar” element) within the definition of family itself.

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Making , from Scratch,unities are seen as integral to the rewriting of Mexican-Americanness and offer her crossings as a way of recreating a new .. Lourdes Portillo brings together self-representation, media, and the wholistic response of Chicana artists to previous versions of family, home, and “evil” imposed on crossin

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Canicular Consciousness,These works propose critical representations of resistance against transnationalism for inclusive notions of family, community, and other forms of collective identity. I analyze issues of self-representation in Garza’s paintings and Cantú’s “story told through photographs,” and their relationship to