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Record Nr.

UNINA9910781632103321

Autore

Vázquez David J

Titolo

Triangulations [[electronic resource] ] : narrative strategies for navigating latino identity / / David J. Vázquez

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Minneapolis, : University of Minnesota Press, 2011

ISBN

1-4529-4731-7

0-8166-7858-8

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (254 p.)

Collana

Critical American studies

Disciplina

810.9/868073

Soggetti

American literature - Hispanic American authors - History and criticism

Narration (Rhetoric) - History

Identity (Psychology) in literature

Hispanic Americans - Ethnic identity

National characteristics, Latin American

Transnationalism in literature

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

Notes on triangulation: navigating Latina/o identity --  Zigzagging through history: Ernesto Galarza, Jesús Colón, and the development of insurgent consciousness -- Crazy for the nation: Piri Thomas, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, and the urban outlaw -- Remaking the insurgent vision: John Rechy, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the limits of nationalist morality -- I can't be me without my people: triangulating historical trauma in the work of Julia Alvarez -- New millennial triangulations.

Sommario/riassunto

Just as mariners use triangulation, mapping an imaginary triangle between two known positions and an unknown location, so, David J. Vázquez contends, Latino authors in late twentieth-century America employ the coordinates of familiar ideas of self to find their way to new, complex identities. Through this metaphor, Vázquez reveals how Latino autobiographical texts, written after the rise of cultural nationalism in the 1960's, challenge mainstream notions of individual identity and national belonging in the United States. In a traditional autobiographical work, the protagonist frequently opts...