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T1 Social and Environmental Justice: Land and Housing in Chicana Literature
T2 Justicia social y medioambiental: tierra y hogar en la Literatura Chicana
A1 Aperribay-Bermejo, Maite
K1 Chicana Literature
K1 Social and environmental justice
K1 Land
K1 Housing
K1 American Dream
AB This article analyzes the novels The House on Mango Street (Cisneros, 1984), So Far fromGod (Castillo, 1993) and Under the Feet of Jesus (Viramontes, 1995) and the drama Heroesand Saints (Moraga, 1994) from the perspective of social and environmental justice, tak-ing into account Cherríe Moraga’s concept of Land, in which home plays a primary role.The sense of justice in these works emerges from an oppressed landscape in which theenvironment, the homes and the bodies of the protagonists reflect the damage done to theenvironment and to human beings. The analysis of the above-mentioned literary worksshows how different Chicana authors advocate the achievement of concepts such as socialand environmental justice, while at the same time denouncing the impossibility of Chicanosachieving the desired American Dream.
PB Servicio de Publicaciones, Universidad de La Laguna
SN e-2530-8335
YR 2024
FD 2024
LK http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37133
UL http://riull.ull.es/xmlui/handle/915/37133
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DS Repositorio institucional de la Universidad de La Laguna
RD 24-nov-2024