Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlands: Beyond Survival

Acknowledgments
Contents
Chapter 1: Introduction: Cicatrix Poetics: Chicana Literary Trauma Studies
	Defining Trauma and Survival in Chicana Communities
	Chicana Survivors and Contemporary Rape Discourse
	On Decolonizing Trauma Studies
	Border Lives, Decolonial Chicana Trauma Narratives
	Survival Narratives, Anti-Violence Movements
	Chapter Breakdown
	References
Chapter 2: Liberating La Mujer Sufrida in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God
	Narrating Violence
	Return to So Far from God, so Close to the United States
	Theorizing the Matriarchy
	La Malogra as a Metaphor for Heteropatriarchy
	Embodiment & Ambiguity Revisited
	References
Chapter 3: La Chingada and “The Silent Lloronas” in Lucha Corpi’s Black Widow’s Wardrobe
	Modern Mythmaking & Mythologizing Chicana Icons
	Ambiguity in a Chicana Feminist Wailing Woman & Malinche Story
	Convicted Survivors
	References
Chapter 4: Coyolxauhqui and Coming of Age in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street
	Gender and Multicultural Representation in Literature About Child Survivors
	Unspeakable Truths: Transformative Narrativity & Literary Trauma Theory
	Radical Creativity as Healing Praxis & the Coyolxauhqui Imperative
	Transformative Narrativity in The House on Mango Street
	References
Chapter 5: Survival Scars and Solidarity in Emma Pérez’s Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory
	Chicana Survival Narratives: Healing Colonial Wounds
	Colonial Wounds Are not Metaphorical
	Licking the Wounds of Colonization
	Surviving the Alamo
	Intersections of Genre: Not Your Typical Western
	Women’s Networks: Violence in Common
	Justice en La Frontera
	References
Chapter 6: Conclusion: Beyond Survival
	Unbecoming the Wound
	References
Index