Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature
Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-
Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature Explorations of Place and Belonging / [electronic resource] : Maya Socolovsky. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - American literatures initiative Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780813561196 0813561191
National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Hispanic American women--Intellectual life.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.H56 / S63 2014
810.9/928708968
Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature Explorations of Place and Belonging / [electronic resource] : Maya Socolovsky. - New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014] - 1 online resource (pages cm) - American literatures initiative Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States .
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
9780813561196 0813561191
National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Hispanic American women--Intellectual life.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
Electronic books.
PS153.H56 / S63 2014
810.9/928708968