Format:
1 online resource (205 pages)
ISBN:
9783030201074
Series Statement:
Literatures of the Americas Ser.
Content:
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Works Cited -- 2 Latina Girlhood: Questions of Identity and Representation -- 2.1 Latina Girls: A Growing Gap Between Population and Representation -- 2.2 Cultural Scripts for Latina Girls: Good Girls vs. Bad Girls -- 2.3 The Latina Bildungsroman as a Decolonial Space: Unearthing Unheard Voices, Decolonizing and Reconstructing Paradigms and Concepts -- 2.4 Decolonizing Spaces and Identities -- Works Cited -- 3 Space of Flows vs. Space of Places: Negotiating the Paradoxes of a Global Age in Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender -- 3.1 Globalization and Its Contradictory Paths: Opening and Closing Borders -- 3.2 Open Borders, Exclusion, and Cultural Confusion: Dilemmas of Identity and Belonging -- 3.3 Reconceptualizing Identities: Toward a Critical Cosmopolitan Perspective -- Works Cited -- 4 Life on the Mexico-US Border: Femininity, Transborderism, and the Reinscription of Boundaries in Norma E. Cantú's Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera -- 4.1 Not Just a Trope: La Frontera as a Real-Life Space -- 4.2 Inscribing Femininity in La Frontera -- 4.3 Transcending and Reinscribing the Border's Materiality -- Works Cited -- 5 The Barrio as a Hybrid Space: Growing Up Between Nationalism and Feminism in Mary Helen Ponce's Hoyt Street: An Autobiography -- 5.1 The Chicanx Barrio: A Space of Pain and Pleasure -- 5.2 Pacoima Talks Back: Contesting Established Narratives of the Chicanx Barrio -- 5.3 How About Barrio Women?: A Critique of Gender Asymmetries in the Community -- Works Cited -- 6 Continuities and Discontinuities Between Home and School: Toward a Multi-layered Understanding of Social Spaces in Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman -- 6.1 Socializing New People in New Settings -- 6.2 Daily Migrations: Minding the Gap Between Home and School.
Note:
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783030201067
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Fernández-García, Andrea Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina writing Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2020 ISBN 9783030201067
Language:
English
