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Inhabiting La Patria : Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez /

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Hipchen, Emily, 1964- (Editor ), Harrison, Rebecca L., 1970- (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Albany : State University of New York Press, [2013]
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez
  • Chapter 1. Julia Alvarez and the Autobiographical Antojo
  • Chapter 2. Yo! on the Margins : Dividing the Family and the Ethnic Writer as Traitor
  • Alvarez's Critique of the Dominican Family
  • The Ethnic Writer as Traitor
  • Conclusion: They're Not Characters, They're My Family
  • Chapter 3. Super-Size Me : Ritual as Affluenza in Julia Alvarez's Once upon a Quinceatera : Coming of Age in the USA
  • Chapter 4. Rewriting Master Narratives : Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies
  • Chapter 5. Patriots and Citizens of the Planet : Friendship and Geopolitics in Julia Alvarez's Young Adult Fiction
  • No Flies Fly into a Closed Mouth: Friendship, Testimonio, and Freedom
  • Adopting a Transnational Sense of Self: Living Youth Activism outside the Box
  • Patriots and Citizens of the Planet: Transcending Borders in Return to Sender and the Ta Lola Novels
  • Concluding Thoughts: Teaching and Learning from Julia Alvarez's Young Adult Fiction
  • Chapter 6. Isolation on Hybridity Road: Complexities of Identity Formation in Julia Alvarez's Something to Declare
  • Chapter 7. Between the Scylla and the Charybdis: Remapping Subjectivity in the Dialogic Waters of Julia Alvarez's The Other Side/El Otro Lado
  • Chapter 8. In the Name of Saloma : Julia Alvarez's Feminist Discourse on La Patria
  • Chapter 9. The Hidden Archivis t; Or, Julia Alvarez's Historical Fiction beyond the Borders
  • In-Between and Beyond : Alvarez's Historical Narrator
  • Other Archives: Collective Oral History and Narrative Identity
  • Saving Salome and Writing the Self
  • Saving the Wor(l)d
  • Conclusion
  • Contributors
  • Index