{"product_id":"welcome-to-oxnard-race-place-and-chicana-adolescence-in-michele-serross-writings-hardcover","title":"Welcome to Oxnard: Race, Place, and Chicana Adolescence in Michele Serros's Writings - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eCristina Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichele Serros (1966-2015) is widely known for her groundbreaking book \u003ci\u003eChicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard\u003c\/i\u003e. 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCristina Herrera\u003c\/b\u003e was born and raised in Oxnard, California, and is now professor and director of Chicanx\/Latinx studies at Portland State University. She is the author of \u003ci\u003eChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature\u003c\/i\u003e: \u003ci\u003eBrown and Nerdy\u003c\/i\u003e and editor of \u003ci\u003eNerds, Goths, Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult Literature\u003c\/i\u003e, which won the 2022 Children's Literature Association Edited Book Award.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 200\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e May 28, 2024\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51750361497888,"sku":"9780822948230","price":89.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/30b3a5bd4b1819ee4c474646243cd49b.webp?v=1779948941","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/welcome-to-oxnard-race-place-and-chicana-adolescence-in-michele-serross-writings-hardcover","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}