Kissing the Mango Tree: Puerto Rican Women Rewriting American Literature
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Main Author: Rivera, Carmen S. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Houston, Tex. Arte Público Press 2002
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Item Description:Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002
Includes bibliographical references (pages 177-188)
Esmeralda Santiago and the Bildungsroman of El Barrio -- Nicholas Mohr and negation/negotiation of the mother-daughter relationship -- The fluid identity of Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins -- Morales in Getting Home Alive -- "Y si la patria es una mujer": the political discourse of Sandra Maria Esteves -- "I just met a girl named Maria":Luz Maria mpierre-Herrera and the subversion of sexual/cultural stereotypes -- Kissing the mango tree: Judith Ortiz Cofer and the ritual of storytelling
Kissing the Mango Tree is the first and only book to examine the works of the most popular Puerto Rican women writers from the perspective of feminist literary criticism. Rivera reconstructs the ethno-feminist aesthetic of Judith Ortiz Cofer, Sandra Maria Esteves, Nicholasa Mohr, Aurora Levins Morales, Esmeralda Santiago and Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera
Physical Description:xx, 188 pages
ISBN:9781611921915
1611921910
9781611926583
1611926580
1558853774
9781558853775

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