Telling Border Life Stories : Four Mexican American Women Writers /

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Voices from the borderlands push against boundaries in more ways than one, as Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara ably demonstrates in this investigation into the twentieth-century autobiographical writing of four women of Mexican origin who lived in the American Southwest. Until recently, little attention...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Kabalen de Bichara, Donna M.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: College Station : Texas A & M University Press, 2013.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Ponce, Mary Helen. > Hoyt Street.
Wilbur-Cruce, Eva Antonia. > Beautiful, cruel country.
Jaramillo, Cleofas M. > Romance of a little village girl.
Mireles, Jovita González, > 1904-1983. > Dew on the thorn.
Self in literature.
Mexican American women in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Biographical fiction, American.
Autobiography > Women authors.
American prose literature > Women authors.
American fiction > Mexican American authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Identite collective dans la litterature.
Moi (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Écrivaines americaines d'origine mexicaine > États-Unis (Nouveau Sud-Ouest) > Biographies > Histoire et critique.
Écrits de femmes autobiographiques > Histoire et critique.
Mexican American women authors > Southwest, New > Biography > History and criticism.
Biographical fiction, American > Southwest, New > History and criticism.
American fiction > Mexican American authors > History and criticism.
Autobiography > Women authors > History and criticism.
American prose literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
New Southwest.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Memory and historical remembering: the art of autobiography and theoretical perspectives
  • Narrative and descriptive discourse: the autobiographical "I" and cultural pre-constructs concerned with space
  • Recovering cultural and historical memory: the dynamic quality of semiotic structures
  • The female subject and expressions of life experiences: social practice and imaginary formations
  • Conclusions.

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