03439nam 2200709 a 450 991081292640332120230725051405.01-4529-4731-70-8166-7858-8(CKB)2550000000049386(EBL)776554(OCoLC)755415635(SSID)ssj0000564908(PQKBManifestationID)11353214(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000564908(PQKBWorkID)10527084(PQKB)11179466(StDuBDS)EDZ0001177858(MiAaPQ)EBC776554(MdBmJHUP)muse30016(Au-PeEL)EBL776554(CaPaEBR)ebr10500267(CaONFJC)MIL525685(EXLCZ)99255000000004938620101206d2011 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrTriangulations[electronic resource] narrative strategies for navigating latino identity /David J. VázquezMinneapolis University of Minnesota Press20111 online resource (254 p.)Critical American studiesDescription based upon print version of record.0-8166-7327-6 0-8166-7326-8 Includes bibliographical references and index.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.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...Critical American studies series.American literatureHispanic American authorsHistory and criticismNarration (Rhetoric)HistoryIdentity (Psychology) in literatureHispanic AmericansEthnic identityNational characteristics, Latin AmericanTransnationalism in literatureAmerican literatureHispanic American authorsHistory and criticism.Narration (Rhetoric)History.Identity (Psychology) in literature.Hispanic AmericansEthnic identity.National characteristics, Latin American.Transnationalism in literature.810.9/868073Vázquez David J1617360MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910812926403321Triangulations3948499UNINA