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Author:

Kabalen de Bichara, Donna M., author.

Title:

Telling border life stories : four Mexican American women writers / Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara.

Edition:

1st ed.

Publisher:

Texas A&M University Press,

Copyright Date:

c2013

Description:

viii, 237 p. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

American prose literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Autobiography--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American fiction--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Biographical fiction, American--Southwest, New--History and criticism.
Mireles, Jovita González,--1904-1983.--Dew on the thorn.
Jaramillo, Cleofas M.--Romance of a little village girl.
Wilbur-Cruce, Eva Antonia.--Beautiful, cruel country.
Ponce, Mary Helen.--Hoyt Street.
Mexican American women authors--Southwest, New--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Mexican American women in literature.
Self in literature.
Group identity in literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Memory and historical remembering: the art of autobiography and theoretical perspectives -- Narrative and descriptive discourse: the autobiographical "I" and cultural pre-constructs concerned with space -- Recovering cultural and historical memory: the dynamic quality of semiotic structures -- The female subject and expressions of life experiences: social practice and imaginary formations -- Conclusions.

Series:

Rio Grande/Río Bravo: borderlands culture and traditions ; no. 18

ISBN:

1603449507 (e-book)
9781603449502 (e-book)
1603448047 (cloth : alk. paper)
9781603448048 (cloth : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)806291817

LCCN:

2012031602

Locations:

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

UXAX826 -- St. Ambrose University Library (Davenport)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)