Toward Chicana critical theories: Seeking equilibrium in the analysis of infinite complexities

College Literature, Spring 1998 by Richards, Judith

cana" refers to women writers from the Southwestern United States, California, and Texas, and includes an allegiance to territories formerly belonging to the Spanish colonial empire and later to Mexico, annexed by the U.S. in 1848. Puerto Ricans, or Nuyoricans-islanders living in New York City-are U.S. citizens by birth, and Cuban Americans comprise both exiles from the 1959 overthrow of the Battista dictatorship and U.S. born persons of Cuban origin, many of whom live in southern Florida and advocate for a political climate that would allow them to return to Cuba.

2 As Ana Castillo explains in her essay, "A countryless woman" (1994), "While I have more in common with a Mexican man than with a white woman, I have much more in common with an Algerian woman that I do with a Mexican man."

WORKS CITED

Castillo, Ana. 1994. Massacre of the dreamers. Essays on Xicanisma. New York: Plume Books.

Moraga, Cherrie, and Gloria Anzaldua, eds. 1981. This bridge called my back: Writings by radical women of color. Watertown: Persephone.