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Entre dos Americas : narrativas de latinas en los '90s / Guillermina Walas.
Van Pelt Library PS153.H56 W35 2000
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Walas, Guillermina.
- Language:
- English
- Spanish
- Subjects (All):
- American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
- American literature.
- American literature--Hispanic American authors.
- Women and literature--United States--History--20th century.
- Women and literature.
- Hispanic American women--Biography.
- Hispanic American women.
- American fiction--Hispanic American authors.
- United States.
- History.
- American fiction--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.
- American fiction.
- American prose literature--Women authors--History and criticism.
- American prose literature.
- American prose literature--Women authors.
- American prose literature--20th century--History and criticism.
- Hispanic American women--Biography--History and criticism.
- Hispanic American women in literature.
- Physical Description:
- x, 166 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Lanham, MD : University Press of America, 2000.
- Language Note:
- Text in Spanish, with quotations in English.
- Summary:
- In Entre dos Am ricas, Guillermina Walas explores the importance of memory for Latina authors. These authors are displaced from their familiar roots in Latin America and the Hispanic Caribbean, and find themselves immersed in their actual individual lives in the United States. These women construct or re-build a new Latina identity based on memory and the past, but also project to a future located in the Anglo-American context. The resulting identity is complex, riddled with cultural conflict that often involves class and gender. Walas analyzes many texts including, Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood (1990) and When I was Puerto Rican (1993) by Judith Ortiz Cofer and Esmerelda Santiago, Dreaming in Cuban (1992) by Cristina Garc a, and How the Garc a Girls Lost Their Accents (1991) by Julia Alvarez. (TEXT IN SPANISH)
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0761818332
- OCLC:
- 44811836
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