Deconstructing Home: Chicana Women and the Quest for Fathers in Reyna Grande's Across a Hundred Mountains

Chicana feminists resisted the movement's patriarchal bent and united under a feminist consciousness that called attention not only to the social inequalities that were the lot of Mexican-American women in the United States, but to the discrimination that women faced within Chicano culture. In Ana Castillo's The Mixquiahuala Letters (1986) and So Far From God (1993), Lucha Corpi's Eulogy for a Brown Angel (1992), Alicia Gaspar de Alba's Desert Blood (2005), and Laura del Fuego's Maravilla (1989), to name some of the more prominent writers and texts to emerge out of the period, men are either rendered invisible or made so peripheral as to be almost absent from the narrative.