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Author:

Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-

Title:

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

Publisher:

Rutgers University Press,

Copyright Date:

2013

Description:

x, 244 pages ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--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.

Other Authors:

American Literatures Initiative.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Ch©Łvez'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.

Series:

Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States

ISBN:

0813561175 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780813561172 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0813561183 (hardcover : alk. paper)
9780813561189 (hardcover : alk. paper)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)815757561

LCCN:

2012040277

Locations:

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

URAX314 -- Clarke University - Nicholas J. Schrup Library (Dubuque)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)