Gender roles and identity in the Chicana/Latina Women in Loverboys by Ana Castillo
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Ana Castillo, Loverboys, gender roles, identity, Chicana, LatinaAbstract
Ana Castillo (Chicago, 1953) is the author of the short story collection Loverboys (1996). These stories address the reality of Chicana and Latina women in the U.S. from a plurality of social contexts. The purpose of this article is to analyse the stories in Loverboys from the perspective of gender roles and the concept of identity, as well as to present a brief initial observation on how female voices have been silenced throughout history. The hypothesis to be demonstrated is that, in these stories, Castillo defends, preserves, and seeks to restore the values of Chicana and Latina women, repeatedly reviled by the machismo of patriarchal society, through the female characters in the stories collected in Loverboys.
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