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Abstract
The choice of these poets is based on the recognition of an empowering trend in their poetry. Their awareness that an unrecognised problem is an irremediable one motivated them to resort to the written word to draw attention to their disempowered status. Foucault would collectively call their poems ’’the author’’ whom he defines as ’’the unifying principle in a particular group of writings or statements, lying at the origins of their significance, as the seat of their coherence’’ (Archaeology 221). The “unifying principle’’ in the poems discussed in this thesis is the role of poetry as an advancement enabler. Before Chicana poets could use their poems as a chart of grievances or an empowering prescription they had to break a habit of silence which had committed Chicanas to a resigned acceptance of injustices. Therefore, the poems discussed in the first chapter could be seen as an embodiment of the process of growing a Chicana tongue - a preliminary step towards developing an emancipated Chicana identity.