Ordonez [n.d.]

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'The recent writings of Chicana poet Alma Villanueva are aptly read and interpreted in light of these current European and American theories of feminine textuality. Villanueva has consistently affirmed the natural and physical power of woman in her work' (62).

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Key Terms: | power |



'Many roads thus lead to the same conclusion: that the traditional split between body and soul is no longer viable and that its pernicious legacy for women is being erased by today's woman, writing affirmatively and with a common purpose across the boundaries of nationality and ethnicity' (62).

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Key Terms: | conclusion | ethnicity | purpose | soul | writing |



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