"Shakin' up" race and gender
Subtitle: intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995)
By: Marta E. Sánchez
Edition: 1st ed
Series: Chicana matters series
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Austin
Language: eng
Number of pages: 202
Subjects: American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism; American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism; Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Intellectual life; Narration (Rhetoric) -- History -- 20th century; African Americans -- Intellectual life; Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life; African Americans in literature; Mexican Americans in literature; Puerto Ricans in literature; Ethnic groups in literature; Minorities in literature; Sex role in literature; Race in literature
Other titles: "Shaking up" race and gender; "Shakin' up" race & gender
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-188) and index
Table of contents: title: Intercultural connections; title: "In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis; title: La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets; title: La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem; title: Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land; title: Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land; title: Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown buffalo; title: Epilogue : La Malinche comes home