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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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

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

Herrera, Cristina

Hardcover

Series: Latinx and Latin American Profiles

Biographies GeneralLiterary CriticismGeneral Latin American History

ISBN10: 0822948230
ISBN13: 9780822948230
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: May 28 2024
Pages: 200
Weight: 1.10
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.10 Depth: 9.40
Language: English
Winner of the 2026 NACCS Book Award

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.

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