Bibliograph

Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature, explorations of place and belonging, Maya Socolovsky

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Label

Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature, explorations of place and belonging, Maya Socolovsky

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

815757561

Responsibility statement

Maya Socolovsky

Series statement

Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States

Sub title

explorations of place and belonging

Table Of Contents

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

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