Family Matters : Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland /

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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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Moreno, Marisel C., 1973- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Familie > Motiv
Minderheitenliteratur
Frauenliteratur
Puerto Ricanerin
Puerto Rican literature > Women authors.
Feminism and literature.
Families in literature.
American literature > Women authors.
American literature > Puerto Rican authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > Caribbean & Latin American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Portoricaines > États-Unis > Vie intellectuelle.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Familles dans la litterature.
Puerto Rican women > United States > Intellectual life.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
Feminism and literature > United States > History > 20th century.
Puerto Rican literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Puerto Rican authors > History and criticism.
USA
Puerto Rico
United States.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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