Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature : Explorations of Place and Belonging /

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"This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writer...

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Autor principal: Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Hispanic American women > Intellectual life.
Belonging (Social psychology)
American literature > Women authors.
American literature > Hispanic American authors.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Appartenance (Psychologie sociale)
Americains d'origine latino-americaine dans la litterature.
Americaines d'origine latino-americaine > Vie intellectuelle.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine latino-americaine > Histoire et critique.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Sumario:"This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works, Maya Socolovsky argues that these narratives are "remapping" the United States so that it is fully integrated within a larger, hemispheric Americas. Looking at such concerns as nation, place, trauma, and storytelling, writers Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Esmeralda Santiago, Ana Castillo, Himilce Novas, and Judith Ortiz Cofer challenge popular views of Latino cultural "unbelonging" and make strong cases for the legitimate presence of Latinas/os within the United States. In this way, they also counter much of today's anti-immigration rhetoric. Imagining the U.S. as part of a broader "Americas," these writings trouble imperialist notions of nationhood, in which political borders and a long history of intervention and colonization beyond those borders have come to shape and determine the dominant culture's writing and the defining of all Latinos as "other" to the nation"--Publisher's website.
Descripción Física:1 online resource (256 pages).
ISBN:9780813561196

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