LEADER 04814nam 2200781 450 001 9910788303503321 005 20230126211308.0 010 $a0-8135-6119-1 024 7 $a10.36019/9780813561196 035 $a(CKB)3170000000060399 035 $a(EBL)1562485 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001004292 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11570811 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001004292 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11038768 035 $a(PQKB)11577647 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1562485 035 $a(OCoLC)867741482 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse25525 035 $a(DE-B1597)526124 035 $a(OCoLC)859537489 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780813561196 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL1562485 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10773706 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL526573 035 $a(OCoLC)863824577 035 $a(EXLCZ)993170000000060399 100 $a20121031h20132013 uy| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTroubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature $eexplorations of place and belonging /$fMaya Socolovsky 210 1$aNew Brunswick, New Jersey :$cRutgers University Press,$d[2013] 210 4$dİ2013 215 $a1 online resource (255 p.) 225 0 $aAmerican literatures initiative 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8135-6118-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: Troubling America(s) -- Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Cha?vez'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. 330 $aThis book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980's, 1990's, and 2000's, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works, Maya Socolovsky argues that these narratives are "remapping" the United States so that it is fully integrated within a larger, hemispheric Americas. Looking at such concerns as nation, place, trauma, and storytelling, writers Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Esmeralda Santiago, Ana Castillo, Himilce Novas, and Judith Ortiz Cofer challenge popular views of Latino cultural "unbelonging" and make strong cases for the legitimate presence of Latinas/os within the United States. In this way, they also counter much of today's anti-immigration rhetoric. Imagining the U.S. as part of a broader "Americas," these writings trouble imperialist notions of nationhood, in which political borders and a long history of intervention and colonization beyond those borders have come to shape and determine the dominant culture's writing and the defining of all Latinos as "other" to the nation. 410 0$aLatinidad. 606 $aAmerican literature$xHispanic American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aHispanic American women$xIntellectual life 606 $aHispanic Americans in literature 606 $aBelonging (Social psychology) 606 $aIdentity (Psychology) in literature 606 $aNational characteristics, Latin American, in literature 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHispanic American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xWomen authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aHispanic American women$xIntellectual life. 615 0$aHispanic Americans in literature. 615 0$aBelonging (Social psychology) 615 0$aIdentity (Psychology) in literature. 615 0$aNational characteristics, Latin American, in literature. 676 $a810.9/928708968 686 $aHU 1727$2rvk 700 $aSocolovsky$b Maya$f1973-$01475926 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910788303503321 996 $aTroubling nationhood in U.S. Latina literature$93690323 997 $aUNINA