Kissing the mango tree : Puerto Rican women rewriting American literature /

Kissing the mango tree : Puerto Rican women rewriting American literature /

"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...

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Autor Principal: Rivera, Carmen S. (Carmen Socorro) (Author)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:inglés
Publicado: Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2002]
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.
Electronic books.
Acceso en liña:Digitalia Hispánica
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Table of Contents:
  • Esmeralda Santiago and the Bildungsroman of El Barrio
  • Nicholas Mohr and negation/negotiation of the mother-daughter relationship
  • The fluid identity of Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales in Getting Home Alive
  • "Y si la patria es una mujer" : the political discourse of Sandra Maria Esteves
  • "I just met a girl named Maria" : Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera and the subversion of sexual/cultural stereotypes
  • Kissing the mango tree : Judith Ortiz Cofer and the ritual of storytelling.

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