Killing Spanish
Subtitle: literary essays on ambivalent U.S. Latino/a identity
By: Lyn Di Iorio Sandín
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 167
ISBN-13: 9780230617513
Subjects: Hispanic American authors; Intellectual life; Ethnicity in literature; History and criticism; American literature; Minorities in literature; Ambivalence in literature; Hispanic Americans; Group identity in literature; Hispanic Americans in literature; Assimilation (Sociology) in literature
Notes: Originally published in hardback: 2004.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and index.
Table of contents: title: Toward a typology of U.S. latino/a literature; title: When Papi killed Mami: allegory's magical fragments in Cristina García's The Agüero sisters; title: Killing "spanish": Rosario Ferré's evolution from autora puertorriqueña to U.S. latina writer; title: "That animals might speak": doubles and the uncanny in Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of home; title: Latino rage: the life and work of Edward Rivera; title: Melancholic allegorists of the street: Piri Thomas, Junot Díaz, and Yxta Maya Murray.