Format:
1 Online-Ressource (x, 244 pages)
ISBN:
0813561191
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9780813561196
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9781461944720
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1461944724
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1299953220
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9781299953222
Series Statement:
Latinidad
Content:
This book examines the ways that U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores the works of Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American writers Denise Chavez, Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Esmeralda Santiago, and Himilce Novas to show how these texts argue for the legitimate belonging of Latino/as within U.S. borders and counter anti-immigration rhetoric
Note:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [195]-237) and index
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Introduction : Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest : dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel -- Mestizaje in the Midwest : remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo -- Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces : Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo -- Memoirs of resistance : colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover -- Tales of the unexpected : Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya -- Postscript : The illegal aliens of American letters : troubling the immigration debate.
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Socolovsky, Maya, 1973- Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature ISBN 9780813561189
Language:
English
Subjects:
American Studies
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