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Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging
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- Creator
- Maya Socolovsky
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- Language
- English
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- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]
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- Physical Details
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- x, 244 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 9780813561172, 1299953220, 1461944724, 9780813561189, 9780813561196, 0813561175, 0813561191, 9781299953222, 0813561183, 9781461944720
- OCLC
- ocn867741482, ocn859537489, ocn863824577, ocn815757561
- 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
Subjects
- 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.