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Author:

S©Łnchez, Marta Ester.

Title:

"Shakin' up" race and gender : intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / Marta E. S©Łnchez.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

University of Texas Press,

Copyright Date:

2005

Description:

xvi, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
Puerto Ricans--United States--Intellectual life.
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Mexican Americans in literature
Puerto Ricans in literature
Ethnic groups in literature
Minorities in literature
Sex role in literature
Race in literature

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-188) and index.

Contents:

Intercultural connections -- "In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" © la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis -- La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets -- La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land -- Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land -- Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown buffalo -- Epilogue : La Malinche comes home.

Series:

Chicana matters series

ISBN:

9780292709652
029270965X (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780292706934
0292706936 (cl. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)57422335

LCCN:

2004030274

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)