Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros's Writings

Michele Serros (1966-2015) is widely known for her groundbreaking book Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death,...
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Author: Cristina Herrera
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Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros's Writings by Herrera, Cristina

Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros's Writings

$169.88

Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros's Writings

$169.88
Author: Cristina Herrera
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Michele Serros (1966-2015) is widely known for her groundbreaking book Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard. Despite her status as a major figure in Chicanx literature, no scholar has written a book-length examination of her body of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction--until now. Cristina Herrera, also from Oxnard, weaves in history, autoethnography, and literary analysis to explore Chicana adolescence and young womanhood with a focus on place-making. Factoring in location, region, and landscape, Herrera asks what it means to grow up Chicana in settings that carry centuries of colonial violence, segregation, and everyday racism against Mexican American communities. She contends that Serros used her hometown to broaden understandings of who and what constitutes Chicanx communities and identities. By reading Serros's work in tandem with her lived experience in the same setting, Herrera uncovers moments of adolescent subjectivity that could only be vocalized and constructed within this particular locale. Herrera pushes against the tendency to separate the author from the text and argues for a spatial understanding of Chicana adolescence, race, class, and young womanhood.

Author: Cristina Herrera
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 05/28/2024
Pages: 200
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.10w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780822948230

About the Author
Cristina Herrera was born and raised in Oxnard, California, and is now professor and director of Chicanx/Latinx studies at Portland State University. She is the author of ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy and editor of Nerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature, which won the 2022 Children's Literature Association Edited Book Award.

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