Postmodern cross-culturalism and politicization in U.S. Latina literature
Subtitle: from Ana Castillo to Julia Alvarez
By: Fatima Mujčinović.
Series: Modern American literature ;; v. 42; Modern American literature (New York, N.Y.) ;; v. 42.
Publisher: P. Lang
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 200
Subjects: American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.; Hispanic American women -- Intellectual life.; Postmodernism (Literature) -- United States.; Hispanic American women in literature.; Identity (Psychology) in literature.; Hispanic Americans in literature.; Group identity in literature.; Exiles in literature.
Description: "Employing a comparative and cross-ethnic approach, this book provides a sophisticated literary and cultural analysis of texts by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Dominican American women writers. As she engages contemporary feminist, political, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theory, Fatima Mujcinovic investigates how selected U.S. Latina narratives have proposed a rethinking of minority subject positioning under the postmodern conditions of cultural hybridization, gender objectification, political oppression, and geographic displacement. In its emphasis on gendered, diasporic, exilic, and geopolitical identities, this book specifically examines works by Ana Castillo, Cristina Garcia Graciela Limon, Demetria Martinez, Rosario Morales, Aurora Levins Morales, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Helena Maria Viramontes, and Julia Alvarez."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p.[187]-195) and index.
Table of contents: title: U.S. Latina literature : mobilizing and reconfiguring postmodern subjectivity; title: Gendered hybrid identities : maneuvering between two cultures; title: Diasporic identities : at the frontiers of nations and culture; title: Exilic identities : the interplay between time and space; title: Geopoliticized identities : entering the public space.