Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing
Decolonizing Spaces and Identities
Autoren: García, Andrea Fernández
Vorschau- Advances new ways of thinking about the coming-of-age narrative by Latina writers
- Interrogates deep-rooted beliefs and perceptions about othered identities in Western societies
- Provides readers with a view of literature featuring Latina girls that departs from simplistic and stereotypical views of Latina identities
Dieses Buch kaufen
- Über dieses Buch
-
This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street: An Autobiography (1993), and Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican (1993) and Almost a Woman (1998). Unlike most representations of Latina girls, which are characterized by cultural inaccuracies, tropes of exoticism, and a tendency to associate the host society with modernity and their girls’ cultures of origin with backwardness and oppression, these texts contribute to reimagining the social differently from what the dominant imagery offers.
By illustrating the vexing phenomena the characters have to negotiate on a daily basis (such as racism, sexism, and displacement), these narratives open avenues for a critical exploration of the legacies of colonial modernity. This book, therefore, not only enables an analysis of how the girls’ development is shaped by these structures of power, but also shows how such legacies are reversed as the characters negotiate their identities. It breaks with the longstanding characterization of young people, and especially Latina girls, as voiceless and deprived of agency, showing readers that this youth group also has say in controlling their lifeworlds. - Über die Autor*innen
-
Andrea Fernández García is an adjunct lecturer at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She has presented papers in conferences held in Spain, Slovakia, USA, Canada and Romania. She has taught courses on English as a second language, Twentieth-century English literature and American literature and culture.
- Inhaltsverzeichnis (7 Kapitel)
-
-
Introduction
Seiten 1-8
-
Latina Girlhood: Questions of Identity and Representation
Seiten 9-52
-
Space of Flows vs. Space of Places: Negotiating the Paradoxes of a Global Age in Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender
Seiten 53-85
-
Life on the Mexico-US Border: Femininity, Transborderism, and the Reinscription of Boundaries in Norma E. Cantú’s Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera
Seiten 87-126
-
The Barrio as a Hybrid Space: Growing Up Between Nationalism and Feminism in Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street: An Autobiography
Seiten 127-154
-
Inhaltsverzeichnis (7 Kapitel)
Dieses Buch kaufen
Services zu diesem Buch
Wir empfehlen
Bibliografische Information
- Bibliographic Information
-
- Buchtitel
- Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing
- Buchuntertitel
- Decolonizing Spaces and Identities
- Autoren
-
- Andrea Fernández García
- Titel der Buchreihe
- Literatures of the Americas
- Copyright
- 2020
- Verlag
- Palgrave Macmillan
- Copyright Inhaber
- The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- eBook ISBN
- 978-3-030-20107-4
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-3-030-20107-4
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-20106-7
- Softcover ISBN
- 978-3-030-20109-8
- Buchreihen ISSN
- 2634-601X
- Auflage
- 1
- Seitenzahl
- VIII, 198
- Anzahl der Bilder
- 1 schwarz-weiß Abbildungen
- Themen
