TY - BOOK AU - Socolovsky,Maya TI - Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature: explorations of place and belonging T2 - American literatures initiative AV - PS153.H56 S63 2013 U1 - 810.9/928708968 23 PY - 2013///] CY - New Brunswick, New Jersey PB - Rutgers University Press KW - American literature KW - Hispanic American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Women authors KW - Hispanic American women KW - Intellectual life KW - Hispanic Americans in literature KW - Belonging (Social psychology) KW - Identity (Psychology) in literature KW - National characteristics, Latin American, in literature KW - Electronic books 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 - http://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/aitie/detail.action?docID=1562485 ER -