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Anzaldúa, Gloria. Borderlands/La Frontera: The New Mestiza, Second Edition. San Francisco: Aunt Lute, 1999.

Ashcroft, Bill, Gareth Griffiths, and Helen Tiffin. The Empire Writes Back: Theory and Practice in Post-Colonial
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Castillo, Debra. Talking Back: Toward a Latin American Feminist Literary Criticism. Ithaca: Cornell UP, 1992.

Davies, Carole Boyce and Elaine Savory Fido. Out of the KUMBLA: Caribbean Women and Literature.
    Trenton, NJ: Africa World P, 1990.

Ferrier, Carole (ed.). Gender, Politics, and Fiction: Twentieth-Century Women’s Novels. St. Lucia,
    Queensland UP, 1991.

Gates, Henry Louis Jr. The Signifying Monkey: A Theory of African-American Literary Criticism. Oxford:
    Oxford UP, 1988.

Gilbert, Sandra M. and Susan Gubar. The Madwoman in the Attic: The Woman Writer and the Nineteenth Century
    Literary Imagination. New Haven: Yale UP, 1979.

   ----. No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century: The War of the Words.
    New Haven: Yale UP, 1988.

   ----. No Man's Land: The Place of the Woman Writer in the Twentieth Century: Sexchanges. New Haven:
    Yale UP, 1989.

Heilbrun, Carolyn. Writing a Woman's Life. New York: Ballantine, 1988.

hooks, bell. Outlaw Culture: Resisting Representations. London: Routledge, 1994.

Hutcheon, Linda. A Poetics of Postmodernism: History, Theory, Fiction. New York: Routledge, 1988.

Ippolito, Emilia. Caribbean Women Writers: Identity and Gender. Rochester, NY: Camden House, 2000.

Kennedy, J. Gerald. Imagining Paris: Exile, Writing, and the American Identity.New Haven: Yale UP, 1993.

Maxwell, Marilyn. Male Rage, Female Fury: Gender and Violence in Contemporary American Fiction. Lanham,
    Maryland: UP of America, 2000.

McCracken, Ellen. New Latina Narrative: The Feminine Space of Postmodern Ethnicity. Tucson, AZ: U of Arizona P, 1999.

Saldívar-Hull, Sonia. Feminism on the Border: Chicana Gender Politics and Literature. Berkeley: U of California P, 2000.

Saldivar, Jose David. The Dialectics of Our America: Genealogy, Cultural Critique, and Literary History.
    Durham: Duke UP, 1991.

Smith, Sidonie and Julia Watson. De/Colonizing the Subject: The Politics of Gender in Women's Autobiography.
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