Inhabiting la patria : identity, agency, and antojo in the work of Julia Alvarez / / edited by Rebecca L. Harrison and Emily Hipchen

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910464891003321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Albany : , : State University of New York Press, , [2013]; ©2013
• ISBN: 1-4619-5245-X; 1-4384-4906-2
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (254 p.)
• Collana: SUNY series in multiethnic literature
• Altri autori (Persone): HarrisonRebecca L. <1970->; HipchenEmily <1964->
• Disciplina: 818.5409
• Soggetti: Dominican literature - History and criticism; Electronic books.
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez""; ""Contents""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Chapter 1: Julia Alvarez and the Autobiographical Antojo""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Chapter 2: Yo! on the Margins: Dividing the Family and the Ethnic Writer as Traitor""; ""Alvarez's Critique of the Dominican Family""; ""The Ethnic Writer as Traitor""; ""Conclusion: They're Not Characters, They're My Family""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""""Chapter 3: Super-Size Me: Ritual as Affluenza in Julia Alvarez's Once upon a Quinceatera: Coming of Age in the USA""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Chapter 4: Rewriting Master Narratives: Julia Alvarez's In the Time of the Butterflies""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Chapter 5: Patriots and Citizens of the Planet: Friendship and Geopolitics in Julia Alvarez's Young Adult Fiction""; ""No Flies Fly into a Closed Mouth: Friendship, Testimonio, and Freedom""; ""Adopting a Transnational Sense of Self: Living Youth Activism outside the Box""; ""Patriots and Citizens of the Planet: Transcending Borders in Return to Sender and the Ta Lola Novels""""Concluding Thoughts: Teaching and ; Learning from Julia Alvarez's Young Adult Fiction""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Chapter 6: Isolation on Hybridity Road: Complexities of Identity Formation in Julia Alvarez's Something to Declare""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Chapter 7: Between the Scylla and the Charybdis: Remapping Subjectivity in the Dialogic Waters of Julia Alvarez's The Other Side/El Otro Lado""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Chapter 8: In the Name of Saloma: Julia Alvarez's Feminist Discourse on La Patria""""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Chapter 9: The Hidden Archivist; Or, Julia Alvarez's Historical Fiction beyond the Borders""; ""In-Between and Beyond: Alvarez's Historical Narrator""; ""Other Archives: Collective Oral History and Narrative Identity""; ""Saving Salome and Writing the Self""; ""Saving the Wor(l)d""; ""Conclusion""; ""Notes""; ""Works Cited""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
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