Family Matters : Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland /
Adopting a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to Puerto Rican literature, the author juxtaposes narratives by insular and U.S. Puerto Rican women authors in order to examine their convergences and divergences. By showing how these writers use the trope of family to question the tenets of rac...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2012.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- The literary canon and Puerto Rican national culture
- Our family, our nation: revisiting la gran familia puertorriquena
- Retrieving the past: the "silenced" narrate
- Patriarchal foundations: contesting gender/sexual paradigms
- Epilogue.