Telling border life stories
Subtitle: four Mexican American women writers
By: Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: Rio Grande/Río Bravo: borderlands culture and traditions -- no. 18
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: College Station
Language: eng
Number of pages: 237
ISBN-13: 9781603448048; 9781603449502
Subjects: Autobiography; Mexican American women in literature; Mexican American authors; American prose literature; History and criticism; Women authors; American Biographical fiction; Mexican American women authors; American fiction; Group identity in literature; Self in literature; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Memory and historical remembering: the art of autobiography and theoretical perspectives; title: Narrative and descriptive discourse: the autobiographical "I" and cultural pre-constructs concerned with space; title: Recovering cultural and historical memory: the dynamic quality of semiotic structures; title: The female subject and expressions of life experiences: social practice and imaginary formations; title: Conclusions.