Postmodern Vernaculars examines the work of Chicana authors such as Gaspar de Alba Anzaldúa
Cantú Castillo Cisneros Mora Pérez and Viramontes in relation to theories of
postmodernism. Working with a fluid concept of postmodernism one that traces the term's
evolution from the 1960s to the present this book argues that Chicana literature is one
vernacular a regional variation of postmodernism. Drawing on the interdisciplinary scholarship
that postmodernism itself has enabled - specifically recent developments in the fields of
geography ethnography photography history and linguistics - Postmodern Vernaculars shows
that Chicana literature participates in the ongoing reconstruction of postmodernism.
