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

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Label

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

• Moreno, Marisel C., 1973-

Subject

• American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Amerikanisches Englisch
• Families in literature
• Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
• Frauenliteratur
• Puerto Rican literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
• Puerto Rican women -- United States -- Intellectual life
• Puerto Rico
• American literature -- Puerto Rican authors | History and criticism

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

Member of

• New World studies

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