| 書目名稱 | Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing | | 副標(biāo)題 | Decolonizing Spaces | | 編輯 | Andrea Fernández-García | | 視頻video | http://file.papertrans.cn/384/383222/383222.mp4 | | 概述 | 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 | | 叢書名稱 | Literatures of the Americas | | 圖書封面 |  | | 描述 | 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 avenuesfor 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 nego | | 出版日期 | Book 2020 | | 關(guān)鍵詞 | Coming-of-Age Narratives; Space; Identity; Girlhood; Latina; Decolonizing; Ethnicity; Race; Patriarchy; Bildu | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20107-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-030-20109-8 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-030-20107-4Series ISSN 2634-601X Series E-ISSN 2634-6028 | | issn_series | 2634-601X | | copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerl |
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