"Shakin' up" race and gender : intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / Marta E. Sánchez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Sánchez, Marta Ester.

Series:

Chicana matters series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Minority authors.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Puerto Ricans--United States--Intellectual life.

Puerto Ricans.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th century.

Narration (Rhetoric).

History.

African Americans--Intellectual life.

African Americans.

Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.

Mexican Americans.

African Americans in literature.

Mexican Americans in literature.

Puerto Ricans in literature.

Ethnic groups in literature.

Minorities in literature.

Sex role in literature.

Race in literature.

Intellectual life.

United States.

Physical Description:

xvi, 202 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

"Shaking up" race and gender

"Shakin' up" race & gender

Place of Publication:

Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005.

Contents:

Intercultural connections

"In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis

La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets

La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem

Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land

Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land

Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown buffalo

Epilogue : La Malinche comes home.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-188) and index.

ISBN:

0292706936

029270965X

OCLC:

57422335