Cicatrix Poetics, Trauma and Healing in the Literary Borderlands

Adrianna M. Santos is Associate Professor of English at Texas A&M University–San Antonio, USA, and advisor of the Mexican American Student Association. She has published in Aztlán, Chicana/Latina Studies, Shakespeare Bulletin and Latina Critical Feminism and is co-editor of The Bard in the Borderlands, and El Mundo Zurdo 8.

• Chapter 1– Introduction: Cicatrix Poetics: Chicana Literary Trauma Studies.- Chapter 2 – La Malogra and Liberating La Mujer Sufrida in Ana Castillo’s So Far from God.- Chapter 3 – La Chingada and “The Silent Lloronas” in Lucha Corpi’s Black Widow’s Wardrobe.- Chapter 4 – Coyolxauhqui and Coming of Age in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street.- Chapter 5– Survival Scars and Solidarity in Emma Pérez’s Forgetting the Alamo, Or, Blood Memory.- Chapter 6 – Conclusion: Beyond Survival