Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature : explorations of place and belonging /
Maya Socolovsky.
- New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press, (c)2013.
- 1 online resource (x, 244 pages)
- Latinidad : transnational cultures in the United States .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
9780813561196 9781461944720
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 literature.