Family matters : Puerto Rican women authors on the island and the mainland

The Resource Family matters : Puerto Rican women authors on the island and the mainland
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Family matters : Puerto Rican women authors on the island and the mainland
Title remainder
Puerto Rican women authors on the island and the mainland
Statement of responsibility
Marisel C. Moreno
Creator
Subject
Language
eng
Summary
Adopting a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to Puerto Rican literature, the author juxtaposes narratives by insular and U.S. Puerto Rican women authors in order to examine their convergences and divergences. By showing how these writers use the trope of family to question the tenets of racial and social harmony, an idealized past, and patriarchal authority that sustain the foundational myth of la gran familia, she argues that this metaphor constitutes an overlooked literary contact zone between narratives from both sides. She proposes the recognition of a "transinsular" corpus to reflect the increasingly transnational character of the Puerto Rican population and addresses the need to broaden the literary canon in order to include the diaspora. Drawing on the fields of historiography, cultural studies, and gender studies, the author defies the tendency to examine these literary bodies independently of one another and therefore aims to present a more nuanced and holistic vision of this literature
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Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
810.9/9287097295
Government publication
government publication of a state province territory dependency etc
Index
index present
LC call number
PS153.P83
LC item number
M67 2012
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
Series statement
New World studies
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