Resumen de The importance of writing as a method of creating identity in feminist Chicana literature: terri de la Peña's Margins
The stronghold of the struggle of the Chicana, in general, as well as that of theChicana writer in particular, has been that of eradicating all the prejudices which havemisdescribed them as compliant women. Stereotypes had been created and sustainedby their male counterparts throughout the years, becoming instrumental in theassimilation and “passive” acceptance by the Chicanas of these deleteriouspreconceived ideas.The Chicana lesbian writer Terri de la Peña has endeavoured to abolish all theprejudices that had constrained the existence of the Chicanas in general, and that ofthe Chicana lesbians in particular, as well as the taboos they had been forced toassimilate and transmit. By means of writing, Verónica, protagonist of de la Peña ́sMargins, abandons the “margins” of her story to take a central position in thedevelopment of her new life, in which she fights to renegotiate her space within hercommunity as well as to re-educate its members into a more tolerant, integrativeunderstanding of life
