Healing memories : Puerto Rican women's literature in the United States /

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"Using an interdisciplinary approach, Healing Memories analyzes the ways that Puerto Rican women authors use their literary works to challenge historical methodologies that have silenced the historical experiences of Puerto Rican women in the United States. Following Aurora Levins Morales'...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: García, Elizabeth (Writer on Puerto Rican women's literature) (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Pittsburgh, Pa. : University of Pittsburgh Press, [2018]
Series:Latinx and Latin American profiles
Subjects:
1900-1999
American literature > Puerto Rican authors > History and criticism.
Puerto Rican literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Women and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Puerto Rican women > United States > Intellectual life.
Puerto Ricans in literature.
Femmes et littérature > États-Unis > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Écrits de femmes américains > Histoire et critique.
Portoricaines > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
Portoricains dans la littérature.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
American literature > Puerto Rican authors
American literature > Women authors
Feminism and literature
Puerto Rican literature > Women authors
Puerto Ricans in literature
Women and literature
United States
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction. "La cultural cura": healing historical absences
  • The making of a curandera historian: Aurora Levins Morales
  • Double victory for Puerto Rican women too: Nicholasa Mohr's Nilda
  • Mending broken memories: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Silent dancing: a partial
  • Remembrance of a Puerto Rican childhood
  • "Degrees of puertoricanness": Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican
  • Conclusion. Who tells your story?: situating diasporican women's literature.

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