La Prieta was a Violence Girl: Chicana Punk Autohisteorías and Cultural Memory

In “La Prieta was a Violence Girl: Chicana punk autohisteorías and cultural memory,” Susana Sepulveda analyzes Violence Girl (2011) by Chicana punkera Alice Bag. Drawing from Anzaldúa’s writing methods and... [ view full abstract ]

In “La Prieta was a Violence Girl: Chicana punk autohisteorías and cultural memory,” Susana Sepulveda analyzes Violence Girl (2011) by Chicana punkera Alice Bag. Drawing from Anzaldúa’s writing methods and conceptualizations of conocimiento, as non-binary connectionist modes of thinking and perceiving, and autohisteoría-teoria, the telling of life stories of the self and of others and that includes “reflection on storytelling processes” (AnaLouise Keating), Sepulveda reads Bag’s memoir as autohisteoría and argues that it contributes to and creates a broader Chicana and punk cultural memory and collective narrative. In turn, Sepulveda brings Anzaldúa’s queerness into sharper relief by bringing the DIY punk ethos to bear on her story, “La Pieta.”

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