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“‘The Waltons, Chicana Style’: Queer Familia and Reclaimed Sisterhood in Terri de la Peña’s Faults,” Cristina Herrera, California State University, Fresno.
In this chapter, Herrera examines an understudied work by a prolific queer Chicana writer, arguing that the novel calls for a rejection of the hetero-patriarchal Chicana/o family through the reclaiming of empowered sisterhood.
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Herrera, C. (2016). “‘The Waltons, Chicana-Style’: Queer Familia and Reclaimed Sisterhood in Terri de la Peña’s Faults”. In: Herrera, C., Mercado-López, L. (eds) (Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_6
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