Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature [electronic resource] : Explorations of Place and Belonging / Maya Socolovsky.
Material type: TextSeries: American literatures initiative | Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United StatesPublication details: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2014] 2015)Description: 1 online resource (pages cm)ISBN:- 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
- 810.9/928708968 23
- PS153.H56 S63 2014
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.
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