LEADER 04386oam 2200589K 450 001 9910860823803321 005 20240513085304.0 010 $a1-00-301647-2 010 $a1-000-09194-5 010 $a1-003-01647-2 010 $a1-000-09182-1 035 $a(CKB)4100000011324009 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6236017 035 $a(OCoLC)1162515822$z(OCoLC)1162842110 035 $a(OCoLC-P)1162515822 035 $a(FlBoTFG)9781003016472 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011324009 100 $a20200701d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu---unuuu 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aChicaNerds in Chicana young adult literature $eBrown and Nerdy /$fCristina Herrera 205 $a1st ed. 210 1$aNew York :$cRoutledge,$d2021. 215 $a1 online resource (177 pages) 225 1 $aChildren's Literature and Culture 311 $a0-367-86021-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aCover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: ChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature: Brown and Nerdy -- 1 Not Your Nerd or "At Risk" Chicana Student: On ChicaNerds and Stereotypes -- 2 "Those White Girls Don't Like It": Community and ChicaNerd Feminist Resistance in Jo Ann Yolanda Hernández's White Bread Competition -- 3 "The College Girl From the Barrio": Calculus and ChicaNerdiness in What Can(t) Wait -- 4 Theater and Chicana Poetic Development in Guadalupe García McCall's Under the Mesquite -- 5 Band Shirts and Rebellion: Resisting the "Buena Hija" Trope Through Nerdiness in I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter -- 6 "Tis the Life of a Misunderstood Teenage Poet": ChicaNerd Poetics in Gabi, A Girl in Pieces -- 7 To Be or Not to Be: Shakespeare, College, and Chicana Feminist Consciousness in Ghosts of El Grullo -- Conclusion: Reflections From a (Grown-up) ChicaNerd: Or, Why I Wrote This Book -- Works Cited -- Index. 330 $aChicaNerds in Chicana Young Adult Literature analyzes novels by the acclaimed Chicana YA writers Jo Ann Yolanda Hernndez, Isabel Quintero, Ashley Hope Prez, Erika Snchez, Guadalupe Garca McCall, and Patricia Santana. Combining the term "Chicana" with "nerd," Dr. Herrera coins the term "ChicaNerd" to argue how the young women protagonists in these novels voice astute observations of their identities as nonwhite teenagers, specifically through a lens of nerdiness--a reclamation of brown girl self-love for being a nerd. In analyzing these ChicaNerds, the volume examines the reclamation and powerful acceptance of one's nerdy Chicana self. While popular culture and mainstream media have shaped the well-known figure of the nerd as synonymous with white maleness, Chicana YA literature subverts the nerd stereotype through its negation of this identity as always white and male. These ChicaNerds unite their burgeoning sociopolitical consciousness as young nonwhite girls with their "nerdy" traits of bookishness, math and literary intelligence, poetic talents, and love of learning. Combining the sociopolitical consciousness of Chicanisma with one aligned to the well-known image of the "nerd," ChicaNerds learn to navigate the many complicated layers of coming to an empowered declaration of themselves as smart Chicanas. 410 0$aChildren's literature and culture. 606 $aAmerican fiction$xMexican American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican fiction$xHispanic American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aYoung adult fiction, American$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMinorities in literature 606 $aIntellectuals in literature 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xMexican American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican fiction$xHispanic American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aYoung adult fiction, American$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMinorities in literature. 615 0$aIntellectuals in literature. 676 $a813.540986872 676 $a810.986872073 700 $aHerrera$b Cristina$c(Chicano studies professor)$01740911 801 0$bOCoLC-P 801 1$bOCoLC-P 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910860823803321 996 $aChicaNerds in Chicana young adult literature$94166818 997 $aUNINA