TY - BOOK AU - Socolovsky,Maya ED - Project Muse. TI - Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging T2 - American literatures initiative SN - 9780813561196 AV - PS153.H56 S63 2014 U1 - 810.9/928708968 23 PY - 2014///] CY - New Brunswick, New Jersey PB - Rutgers University Press KW - National characteristics, Latin American, in literature KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - Belonging (Social psychology) KW - Hispanic Americans in literature KW - Hispanic American women KW - Intellectual life KW - American literature KW - Women authors KW - History and criticism KW - Hispanic American authors KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - 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 UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/books/9780813561196/ ER -