04848nam 2200793 450 991046353540332120200520144314.00-8135-6119-110.36019/9780813561196(CKB)3170000000060399(EBL)1562485(SSID)ssj0001004292(PQKBManifestationID)11570811(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001004292(PQKBWorkID)11038768(PQKB)11577647(MiAaPQ)EBC1562485(OCoLC)867741482(MdBmJHUP)muse25525(DE-B1597)526124(OCoLC)859537489(DE-B1597)9780813561196(Au-PeEL)EBL1562485(CaPaEBR)ebr10773706(CaONFJC)MIL526573(OCoLC)863824577(EXLCZ)99317000000006039920121031h20132013 uy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtccrTroubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature explorations of place and belonging /Maya SocolovskyNew Brunswick, New Jersey :Rutgers University Press,[2013]©20131 online resource (255 p.)American literatures initiativeDescription based upon print version of record.0-8135-6118-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel -- Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo -- Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo -- Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover -- Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya -- Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works, Maya Socolovsky argues that these narratives are "remapping" the United States so that it is fully integrated within a larger, hemispheric Americas. Looking at such concerns as nation, place, trauma, and storytelling, writers Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Esmeralda Santiago, Ana Castillo, Himilce Novas, and Judith Ortiz Cofer challenge popular views of Latino cultural "unbelonging" and make strong cases for the legitimate presence of Latinas/os within the United States. In this way, they also counter much of today's anti-immigration rhetoric. Imagining the U.S. as part of a broader "Americas," these writings trouble imperialist notions of nationhood, in which political borders and a long history of intervention and colonization beyond those borders have come to shape and determine the dominant culture's writing and the defining of all Latinos as "other" to the nation.Latinidad.American literatureHispanic American authorsHistory and criticismAmerican literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticismHispanic American womenIntellectual lifeHispanic Americans in literatureBelonging (Social psychology)Identity (Psychology) in literatureNational characteristics, Latin American, in literatureElectronic books.American literatureHispanic American authorsHistory and criticism.American literatureWomen authorsHistory and criticism.Hispanic American womenIntellectual life.Hispanic Americans in literature.Belonging (Social psychology)Identity (Psychology) in literature.National characteristics, Latin American, in literature.810.9/928708968HU 1727rvkSocolovsky Maya1973-1052311MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463535403321Troubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature2483470UNINA