This book looks at how Chicana/o authors, who have experienced cultural disconnection because of their gender, gender politics or sexual orientation, attempt to forge a connection back to Chicana/o culture through their use of liberation theology.
Liberation Theology in Chicana/o Literature looks at the ways in which Chicana/o authors who have experienced cultural disconnection or marginalization because of their gender, gender politics and sexual orientation attempt to forge a connection back to Chicana/o culture through their use of liberation theology.
Acknowledgments. Introduction 1. The Problematics of Chican(o) Subjectivity 2. Liberation Theology: An Overview and its Transition into Chicano Contexts 3. Gloria Anzaldua's Coatlicue State: A Postmodern Rupture into Liberation Theology 4. Ann Castillo's Representation of the Seventeenth Century Mystical Nun Tradition: A Renarrativization of Catholic Feminist Agency in the Form of Liberation Theology Appendix. Notes. Bibliography. Index