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

By: Socolovsky, Maya, 1973-.
Material type: materialTypeLabelBookSeries: American literatures initiative.Publisher: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, [2013]Copyright date: �2013Description: 1 online resource (255 pages).Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9780813561196 (e-book).Subject(s): American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism | American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism | Hispanic American women -- Intellectual life | Hispanic Americans in literature | Belonging (Social psychology) | Identity (Psychology) in literature | National characteristics, Latin American, in literatureGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 810.9/928708968 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
Contents:
Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Ch�avez'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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

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Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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