Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging /
Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-
Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging / [electronic resource] Maya Socolovsky. - 1 online resource (255 pages) - American literatures initiative . - Latinidad. .
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 (e-book)
American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Hispanic American women--Intellectual life.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
Electronic books.
PS153.H56 / S63 2013
810.9/928708968
Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging / [electronic resource] Maya Socolovsky. - 1 online resource (255 pages) - American literatures initiative . - Latinidad. .
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 (e-book)
American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
American literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
Hispanic American women--Intellectual life.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Belonging (Social psychology)
Identity (Psychology) in literature.
National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.
Electronic books.
PS153.H56 / S63 2013
810.9/928708968