Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing write by Andrea Fernández-García. This book was released on 2019-12-20. Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture
Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture write by Esther Álvarez-López. This book was released on 2023-03-30. Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a study of the figure of the stranger in US Latinx literary and cultural forms, ranging from contemporary novels through essays to film and transborder art activism. The focus on this abject figure is twofold: first, to explore its potential to expose the processes of othering to which Latinxs are subjected; and, second, to foreground its epistemic response to neocolonial structures and beliefs. Thus, this book draws on relevant sociological literature on the stranger to unveil the political and social processes behind the recognition of Latinxs as ‘out of place.’ On the other hand, and most importantly, this volume follows the path of neo-cosmopolitan approaches to bring to the fore processes of interrelatedness, interaction, and conviviality that run counter to criminalizing discourses around Latinxs. Through an engagement with these theoretical tenets, the goal of this book is to showcase the role of the Latinx stranger as a cosmopolitan mediator that transforms walls into bridges.
Welcome to Oxnard
Welcome to Oxnard - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Welcome to Oxnard write by Cristina Herrera. This book was released on 2024-07-15. Welcome to Oxnard available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Michele Serros (1966–2015) is widely known for her groundbreaking book Chicana Falsa and Other Stories of Death, Identity, and Oxnard. Despite her status as a major figure in Chicanx literature, no scholar has written a book-length examination of her body of poetry, fiction, and nonfiction—until now. Cristina Herrera, also from Oxnard, weaves in history, autoethnography, and literary analysis to explore Chicana adolescence and young womanhood with a focus on place-making. Factoring in location, region, and landscape, Herrera asks what it means to grow up Chicana in settings that carry centuries of colonial violence, segregation, and everyday racism against Mexican American communities. She contends that Serros used her hometown to broaden understandings of who and what constitutes Chicanx communities and identities. By reading Serros’s work in tandem with her lived experience in the same setting, Herrera uncovers moments of adolescent subjectivity that could only be vocalized and constructed within this particular locale. Herrera pushes against the tendency to separate the author from the text and argues for a spatial understanding of Chicana adolescence, race, class, and young womanhood.
Reading U.S. Latina Writers
Reading U.S. Latina Writers - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reading U.S. Latina Writers write by A. Quintana. This book was released on 2003-03-18. Reading U.S. Latina Writers available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This essential teaching guide focuses on an emerging body of literature by U.S. Latina and Latin American Women writers. It will assist non-specialist educators in syllabus revision, new course design and classroom presentation. The inclusive focus of the book - that is, combining both US Latina and Latin American women writers - is significant because it introduces a more global and transnational way of approaching the literature. The introduction outlines the major historical experiences that inform the literature, the important genres, periods, movements and authors in its evolution; the traditions and influences that shape the works; and key critical issues of which teachers should be aware. The collection seeks to provide readers with a variety of Latina texts that will guarantee its long-term usefulness to teachers and students of pan-American literature. Because it is no longer possible to understand U.S. Latina literature without taking into consideration the histories and cultures of Latin America, the volume will, through its organization, argue for a more globalized type of analysis which considers the similarities as well as the differences in U.S. and Latin American women's cultural productions. In this context, the term Latina evokes a diasporic, transnational condition in order to address some of the pedagogical issues posed by the bicultural nature which is inherent in pan-American women's literature.
The Intersection of Gender, Class and Ethnicity in U.S. Latina Life Writings
The Intersection of Gender, Class and Ethnicity in U.S. Latina Life Writings - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Intersection of Gender, Class and Ethnicity in U.S. Latina Life Writings write by Michelle Johnson Vela. This book was released on 2001. The Intersection of Gender, Class and Ethnicity in U.S. Latina Life Writings available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
