| Description |
1 online resource (viii, 198 pages) |
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Literatures of the Americas |
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Literatures of the Americas.
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| Contents |
Intro -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- 1 Introduction -- Works Cited -- 2 Latina Girlhood: Questions of Identity and Representation -- 2.1 Latina Girls: A Growing Gap Between Population and Representation -- 2.2 Cultural Scripts for Latina Girls: Good Girls vs. Bad Girls -- 2.3 The Latina Bildungsroman as a Decolonial Space: Unearthing Unheard Voices, Decolonizing and Reconstructing Paradigms and Concepts -- 2.4 Decolonizing Spaces and Identities -- Works Cited -- 3 Space of Flows vs. Space of Places: Negotiating the Paradoxes of a Global Age in Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender |
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3.1 Globalization and Its Contradictory Paths: Opening and Closing Borders -- 3.2 Open Borders, Exclusion, and Cultural Confusion: Dilemmas of Identity and Belonging -- 3.3 Reconceptualizing Identities: Toward a Critical Cosmopolitan Perspective -- Works Cited -- 4 Life on the Mexico-US Border: Femininity, Transborderism, and the Reinscription of Boundaries in Norma E. Cantú's Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera -- 4.1 Not Just a Trope: La Frontera as a Real-Life Space -- 4.2 Inscribing Femininity in La Frontera -- 4.3 Transcending and Reinscribing the Border's Materiality |
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Works Cited -- 5 The Barrio as a Hybrid Space: Growing Up Between Nationalism and Feminism in Mary Helen Ponce's Hoyt Street: An Autobiography -- 5.1 The Chicanx Barrio: A Space of Pain and Pleasure -- 5.2 Pacoima Talks Back: Contesting Established Narratives of the Chicanx Barrio -- 5.3 How About Barrio Women?: A Critique of Gender Asymmetries in the Community -- Works Cited -- 6 Continuities and Discontinuities Between Home and School: Toward a Multi-layered Understanding of Social Spaces in Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman |
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6.1 Socializing New People in New Settings -- 6.2 Daily Migrations: Minding the Gap Between Home and School -- 6.3 Destabilizing Demarcations Between Home and School: Mingling Social Practices, Values, and Meanings -- Works Cited -- 7 Conclusions -- Works Cited -- Index |
| Summary |
This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú's Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), Mary Helen Ponce's Hoyt Street: An Autobiography (1993), and Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican(1993) and Almost a Woman (1998). Unlike most representations of Latina girls, which are characterized by cultural inaccuracies, tropes of exoticism, and a tendency to associate the host society with modernity and their girls' cultures of origin with backwardness and oppression, these texts contribute to reimagining the social differently from what the dominant imagery offers. By illustrating the vexing phenomena the characters have to negotiate on a daily basis (such as racism, sexism, and displacement), these narratives open avenues for a critical exploration of the legacies of colonial modernity. This book, therefore, not only enables an analysis of how the girls' development is shaped by these structures of power, but also shows how such legacies are reversed as the characters negotiate their identities. It breaks with the longstanding characterization of young people, and especially Latina girls, as voiceless and deprived of agency, showing readers that this youth group also has say in controlling their lifeworlds |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on January 28, 2020) |
| Subject |
Alvarez, Julia -- Criticism and interpretation
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Cantú, Norma E., 1947- -- Criticism and interpretation
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Ponce, Mary Helen -- Criticism and interpretation
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Santiago, Esmeralda -- Criticism and interpretation
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Alvarez, Julia fast |
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Cantú, Norma E., 1947- fast |
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Ponce, Mary Helen fast |
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Santiago, Esmeralda fast |
| Subject |
Girls in literature.
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Hispanic American women in literature.
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Hispanic American women -- Intellectual life
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American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
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American literature -- Hispanic American authors
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American literature -- Women authors
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Girls in literature
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Hispanic American women in literature
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Hispanic American women -- Intellectual life
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783030201074 |
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3030201074 |
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3030201066 |
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9783030201067 |
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