Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging / Maya Socolovsky. [electronic resource]
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TextSeries: American literatures initiative | LatinidadPublisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]Copyright date: ©2013Description: 1 online resource (255 pages)ISBN: - 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
- 810.9/928708968 23
- PS153.H56 S63 2013
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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.
Description based on print version record.
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.