>>Speaking Chicana: Voice, Power, and Identity

ISBN: 0-8165-1815-7
226 pp. | paper only | $20.00

D. Letticia Galindo and María Dolores Gonzales, eds

Provides a significant survey of the literature on Chicanas and language production. Ten contributors—from linguist to lawyer, from poet to art historian—discuss language varieties and attitudes; bilinguality; codeswitching; cultural identity and language; language in literature and art; taboo language; and legal discourse.