Triangulations [electronic resource] : narrative strategies for navigating latino identity / David J. Vázquez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vázquez, David J.

Series:

Critical American studies series.

Critical American studies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Narration (Rhetoric)--History.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Identity (Psychology) in literature.

Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity.

Hispanic Americans.

National characteristics, Latin American.

Transnationalism in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (254 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2011.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Just as mariners use triangulation, mapping an imaginary triangle between two known positions and an unknown location, so, David J. Vázquez contends, Latino authors in late twentieth-century America employ the coordinates of familiar ideas of self to find their way to new, complex identities. Through this metaphor, Vázquez reveals how Latino autobiographical texts, written after the rise of cultural nationalism in the 1960's, challenge mainstream notions of individual identity and national belonging in the United States. In a traditional autobiographical work, the protagonist frequently opts...

Contents:

Notes on triangulation: navigating Latina/o identity

Zigzagging through history: Ernesto Galarza, Jesús Colón, and the development of insurgent consciousness

Crazy for the nation: Piri Thomas, Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, and the urban outlaw

Remaking the insurgent vision: John Rechy, Judith Ortiz Cofer, and the limits of nationalist morality

I can't be me without my people: triangulating historical trauma in the work of Julia Alvarez

New millennial triangulations.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1-4529-4731-7

0-8166-7858-8

OCLC:

755415635