Elisabeth Mermann-Jozwiak
Postmodern Vernaculars
Chicana Literature and Postmodern Rhetoric

Publisher Comments:
Postmodern Vernaculars examines the work of Chicana authors such as Gaspar de Alba, Anzaldúa, Cantú, Castillo, Cisneros, Mora, Pérez, and Viramontes in relation to theories of postmodernism. Working with a fluid concept of postmodernism, one that traces the term's evolution from the 1960s to the present, this book argues that Chicana literature is one vernacular, a regional variation of postmodernism. Drawing on the interdisciplinary scholarship that postmodernism itself has enabled-specifically recent developments in the fields of geography, ethnography, photography, history, and linguistics- Postmodern Vernaculars shows that Chicana literature participates in the ongoing reconstruction of postmodernism.

Dr. Mermann-Jozwiak is Associate Dean of the College of Arts and Humanities and Professor of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi.

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