Esmeralda Santiago and the Bildungsroman of El Barrio -- Nicholas Mohr and negation/negotiation of the mother-daughter relationship -- The fluid identity of Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins -- Morales in Getting Home Alive -- "Y si la patria es una mujer": the political discourse of Sandra Maria Esteves -- "I just met a girl named Maria":Luz Maria mpierre-Herrera and the subversion of sexual/cultural stereotypes -- Kissing the mango tree: Judith Ortiz Cofer and the ritual of storytelling
Summary
Kissing the Mango Tree is the first and only book to examine the works of the most popular Puerto Rican women writers from the perspective of feminist literary criticism. Rivera reconstructs the ethno-feminist aesthetic of Judith Ortiz Cofer, Sandra Maria Esteves, Nicholasa Mohr, Aurora Levins Morales, Esmeralda Santiago and Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188)
Notes
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