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Record Nr.

UNINA9910451646003321

Autore

Sánchez Marta Ester

Titolo

"Shakin' up" race and gender [[electronic resource] ] : intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / / Marta E. Sánchez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Austin, : University of Texas Press, 2005

ISBN

0-292-79680-3

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (221 p.)

Collana

Chicana matters series

Disciplina

810.9/920693/09045

Soggetti

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

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-188) and index.

Nota di contenuto

"In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis -- La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets -- La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land -- Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land -- Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown



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