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

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Label

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

Title remainder

explorations of place and belonging

Statement of responsibility

Maya Socolovsky

Creator

• Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-

Contributor

• American Literatures Initiative

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

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

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

Member of

• Latinidad

Cataloging source

DLC

Index

index present

LC call number

PS153.H56

LC item number

S63 2013

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States