Kissing the mango tree
Subtitle: Puerto Rican women rewriting American literature
By: by Carmen S. Rivera.
Publisher: Arte Público Press
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Houston, Tex
Language: eng
Number of pages: 188
Subjects: American literature -- Puerto Rican authors -- History and criticism.; Puerto Rican literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; Women and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century.; American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism.; Puerto Rican women -- United States -- Intellectual life.; Puerto Ricans in literature.
Description: "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, Rosario Morales, Esmeralda Santiago, and Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera.".

"This study is accompanied by a complete bibliography of the six writers' works and secondary sources of feminist, Latino and ethno-poetic criticism and theory."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-188).