Triangulations : Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity /

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Just as mariners use triangulation, mapping an imaginary triangle between two known positions and an unknown location, so, David J. Vázquez contends, Latino authors in late twentieth-century America employ the coordinates of familiar ideas of self to find their way to new, complex identities. Throu...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Vázquez, David J.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Hispanos.
Interkulturalität.
Erzähltechnik.
Ethnizität.
Amerikanisches Englisch.
Literatur.
Transnationalism in literature.
National characteristics, Latin American.
Narration (Rhetoric)
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Hispanic Americans > Ethnic identity.
American literature > Hispanic American authors.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > Hispanic American.
LITERARY CRITICISM > American > General.
Transnationalisme dans la litterature.
Latino-Americains.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Narration > Histoire.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine latino-americaine > Histoire et critique.
Narration (Rhetoric) > History.
American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
History
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Notes on triangulation: navigating Latina/o identity
  • Zigzagging through history: Ernesto Galarza, Jesús Colón, and the development of insurgent consciousness
  • Crazy for the nation: Piri Thomas, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, and the urban outlaw
  • Remaking the insurgent vision: John Rechy, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the limits of nationalist morality
  • I can't be me without my people: triangulating historical trauma in the work of Julia Alvarez
  • New millennial triangulations.

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