Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature : Explorations of Place and Belonging /

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"This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writer...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Hispanic American women > Intellectual life.
Belonging (Social psychology)
American literature > Women authors.
American literature > Hispanic American authors.
Identite (Psychologie) dans la litterature.
Appartenance (Psychologie sociale)
Americains d'origine latino-americaine dans la litterature.
Americaines d'origine latino-americaine > Vie intellectuelle.
Écrits de femmes americains > Histoire et critique.
Litterature americaine > Auteurs americains d'origine latino-americaine > Histoire et critique.
American literature > Women authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Troubling America(s)
  • Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel
  • Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo
  • Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo
  • Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover
  • Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya
  • Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.

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