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Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging, Maya Socolovsky
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- Summary
- "This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works, Maya Socolovsky argues that these narratives are "remapping" the United States so that it is fully integrated within a larger, hemispheric Americas. Looking at such concerns as nation, place, trauma, and storytelling, writers Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Esmeralda Santiago, Ana Castillo, Himilce Novas, and Judith Ortiz Cofer challenge popular views of Latino cultural "unbelonging" and make strong cases for the legitimate presence of Latinas/os within the United States. In this way, they also counter much of today's anti-immigration rhetoric. Imagining the U.S. as part of a broader "Americas," these writings trouble imperialist notions of nationhood, in which political borders and a long history of intervention and colonization beyond those borders have come to shape and determine the dominant culture's writing and the defining of all Latinos as "other" to the nation." -- Publisher's website
- Language
- eng
- Extent
- x, 244 p.
- 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
- Isbn
- 9780813561172
- Label
- Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging
- Title
- Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature
- Title remainder
- explorations of place and belonging
- Statement of responsibility
- Maya Socolovsky
- Subject
-
- American literature -- Hispanic American authors | History and criticism
- American literature -- Women authors
- American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Belonging (Social psychology)
- Belonging (Social psychology)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Hispanic American women -- Intellectual life
- Hispanic American women -- Intellectual life
- Hispanic Americans
- Hispanic Americans in literature
- Identity (Psychology)
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Literature
- National characteristics, Latin American
- National characteristics, Latin American, in literature
- American literature -- Hispanic American authors
- Language
- eng
- Summary
- "This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works, Maya Socolovsky argues that these narratives are "remapping" the United States so that it is fully integrated within a larger, hemispheric Americas. Looking at such concerns as nation, place, trauma, and storytelling, writers Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Esmeralda Santiago, Ana Castillo, Himilce Novas, and Judith Ortiz Cofer challenge popular views of Latino cultural "unbelonging" and make strong cases for the legitimate presence of Latinas/os within the United States. In this way, they also counter much of today's anti-immigration rhetoric. Imagining the U.S. as part of a broader "Americas," these writings trouble imperialist notions of nationhood, in which political borders and a long history of intervention and colonization beyond those borders have come to shape and determine the dominant culture's writing and the defining of all Latinos as "other" to the nation." -- Publisher's website
- Cataloging source
- DLC
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorDate
- 1973-
- http://library.link/vocab/creatorName
- Socolovsky, Maya
- Index
- index present
- LC call number
- PS153.H56
- LC item number
- S63 2013
- Literary form
- non fiction
- Nature of contents
- bibliography
- http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
- American Literatures Initiative
- Series statement
- Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States
- http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
-
- American literature
- American literature
- Hispanic American women
- Hispanic Americans in literature
- Belonging (Social psychology)
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- National characteristics, Latin American, in literature
- American literature
- American literature
- Belonging (Social psychology)
- Hispanic American women
- Hispanic Americans
- Identity (Psychology)
- Literature
- National characteristics, Latin American
- Label
- Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging, Maya Socolovsky
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index
- 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
- Control code
- 815757561
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 244 p.
- Isbn
- 9780813561172
- Lccn
- 2012040277
- Other control number
- 40022472251
- System control number
- (OCoLC)815757561
- Label
- Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging, Maya Socolovsky
- Bibliography note
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [221]-237) and index
- 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
- Control code
- 815757561
- Dimensions
- 23 cm
- Extent
- x, 244 p.
- Isbn
- 9780813561172
- Lccn
- 2012040277
- Other control number
- 40022472251
- System control number
- (OCoLC)815757561
Subject
- American literature -- Hispanic American authors | History and criticism
- American literature -- Women authors
- American literature -- Women authors | History and criticism
- Belonging (Social psychology)
- Belonging (Social psychology)
- Criticism, interpretation, etc
- Hispanic American women -- Intellectual life
- Hispanic American women -- Intellectual life
- Hispanic Americans
- Hispanic Americans in literature
- Identity (Psychology)
- Identity (Psychology) in literature
- Literature
- National characteristics, Latin American
- National characteristics, Latin American, in literature
- American literature -- Hispanic American authors
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