Geographies of girlhood in US Latina writing : decolonizing spaces and identities

• 作者： Fernandez-Garcia, Andrea, author.
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  • Literatures of the Americas.
• 出版： Cham : Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
• 叢書名： Literatures of the Americas
• 主題： Alvarez, Julia--Criticism and interpretation. , Cantu, Norma E., 1947---Criticism and interpretation. , Ponce, Mary Helen--Criticism and interpretation. , Santiago, Esmeralda--Criticism and interpretation. , Girls in literature. , Hispanic American women in literature. , Hispanic American women--Intellectual life. , American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism. , American literature--Women authors--History and criticism. , Latin American/Caribbean Literature. , Contemporary Literature. , Twentieth-Century Literature.
• ISBN： 9783030201074 (electronic bk.) 、 9783030201067 (paper)
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• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Latina Girls: Questions of Identity and Representation -- Chapter 3: Space of Flows vs. Space of Places: Negotiating the Paradoxes of a Global Age in Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender -- Chapter 4: Life on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Femininity, Transborderism, and the Reinscription of Boundaries in Norma E. Cantú's Canicula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera -- Chapter 5: The Barrio as a Hybrid Space: Growing Up between Nationalism and Feminism in Mary Helen Ponce's Hoyt Street: An Autobiography -- Chapter 6: Continuities and Discontinuities between Home and School: Towards a Multi-layered Understanding of Social Spaces in Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman -- Chapter 7: Conclusions.
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• 摘要註: 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 Canicula: 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. Andrea Fernandez Garcia is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She has presented papers in conferences held in Spain, Slovakia, USA, Canada and Romania. She has taught courses on English as a second language, Twentieth-century English literature and American literature and culture.
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