Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing: Decolonizing Spaces and Identities 1st ed. 2020 Edition

Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing: Decolonizing Spaces and Identities 1st ed. 2020 Edition – Ebook Instant Download/Delivery ISBN(s): 9783030201067,9783030201074,3030201066,3030201074

Product details:

• ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 3030201074
• ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 9783030201074
• Author: Andrea Fernández-García

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.

Table contents:

1. Introduction

2. Latina Girlhood: Questions of Identity and Representation

3. Space of Flows vs. Space of Places: Negotiating the Paradoxes of a Global Age in Julia Alvarez’s Return to Sender

4. 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

5. The Barrio as a Hybrid Space: Growing Up Between Nationalism and Feminism in Mary Helen Ponce’s Hoyt Street: An Autobiography

6. Continuities and Discontinuities Between Home and School: Toward a Multi-layered Understanding of Social Spaces in Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman

7. Conclusions

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