Session Details

Tuesday, 27 December

56. Convergences and Divergences: Chicano and Fronteriza Literatures

7:00–8:15 p.m., Georgetown West, Washington Hilton

Program arranged by the Division on Chicana and Chicano Literature

Presiding: María Alicia Garza, Boise State Univ.

1. “‘You Say Chicana, I Say Fronteriza’: Borders and Transnational Feminism,” Marta Esther Sánchez, Arizona State Univ., Tempe

2. “The Camera under Erasure: The Transfronteriza Work of Lourdes Portillo,” Hector Avalos Torres, Univ. of New Mexico, Albuquerque

3. “Relational Geographies of the Borderlands in Contemporary Mexicanista-Transfronteriza Feminisms,” Michelle Joffroy, Smith Coll.

4. “Fragmented Borders: Women’s Writing from las Fronteras,” Guadalupe Cortina, Univ. of Texas–Pan American

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