Revolving-Door Life Writing :: Literature and Cinema of Puerto Rican Women.

Hauptbeschreibung 'Revolving-Door Life Writing' is about selected Puerto Rican female (im)migrant authors and filmmakers on the East Coast of the United States. The focus of this study lies on the hybrid and partly transnational cultural identities of these life writers. Since Nuyorican an...

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1. Verfasser: Freyer, Christin
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Heidelberg : Universitätsverlag Winter, 2013.
Schriftenreihe:American Studies - A Monograph Series - Band 232.
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Zusammenfassung:Hauptbeschreibung 'Revolving-Door Life Writing' is about selected Puerto Rican female (im)migrant authors and filmmakers on the East Coast of the United States. The focus of this study lies on the hybrid and partly transnational cultural identities of these life writers. Since Nuyorican and ""NuRican"" life writing undermines the given context of the (neo- )colonial status, decisive attempts at decolonisation take place. The authors use the rather subversive strategy of jaibaría, a Puerto Rican folk tactic; the filmmakers are more overt with their tools of directness voiced in confrontat.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (294 pages)
ISBN:3825373479
9783825373474

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