Postmodern cross-culturalism and politicization in U.S. Latina literature : from Ana Castillo to Julia Alvarez

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    • Mujčinović, Fatima

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Postmodern cross-culturalism and politicization in U.S. Latina literature : from Ana Castillo to Julia Alvarez

Fatima Mujčinović

(Modern American literature / Yoshinobu Hakutani, general editor, v. 42)

P. Lang, c2004

  • : hbk., alk. paper

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Includes bibliographical references (p.[187]-195) and index

Contents of Works

  • U.S. Latina literature : mobilizing and reconfiguring postmodern subjectivity
  • Gendered hybrid identities : maneuvering between two cultures
  • Diasporic identities : at the frontiers of nations and culture
  • Exilic identities : the interplay between time and space
  • Geopoliticized identities : entering the public space

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Description

Employing a comparative and cross-ethnic approach, this book provides a sophisticated literary and cultural analysis of texts by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Dominican American women writers. As she engages contemporary feminist, political, post-colonial, and psychoanalytic theory, Fatima Mujč inović investigates how selected U.S. Latina narratives have proposed a rethinking of minority subject positioning under the postmodern conditions of cultural hybridization, gender objectification, political oppression, and geographic displacement. In its emphasis on gendered, diasporic, exilic, and geopolitical identities, this book specifically examines works by Ana Castillo, Cristina Garcia, Graciela Limon, Demetria Martinez, Rosario Morales, Aurora Levins Morales, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Helena Maria Viramontes, and Julia Alvarez.

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