The Decolonial Imaginary
Writing Chicanas Into History

Emma Pérez (Author)

9780253212832, Indiana University Press

Paperback / softback, published 22 September 1999

208 pages, 1 bibliog., 1 index
23.5 x 15.6 x 1.1 cm, 0.295 kg

"The Decolonial Imaginary is a smart, challenging book that disrupts a great deal of what we think we know . . . it will certainly be read seriously in Chicano/a studies." —Women's Review of Books
Emma Pérez discusses the historical methodology which has created Chicano history and argues that the historical narrative has often omitted gender. She poses a theory which rejects the colonizer's methodological assumptions and examines new tools for uncovering the hidden voices of Chicanas who have been relegated to silence.