Intersections of harm : narratives of Latina deviance and defiance /

"In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas' minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm. Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida...

詳細記述

書誌詳細
第一著者: Halperin, Laura, 1974- (著者)
団体著者: American Literatures Initiative
フォーマット: Licensed eBooks
言語:英語
出版事項: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press [2015]
オンライン・アクセス:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt16nzfq3
目次:
  • Rape's shadow: seized freedoms in Irene Vilar's The ladies gallery and Impossible motherhood
  • Violated bodies and assaulted landscapes in Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of home
  • Madness's material consequences in Ana Castillo's So far from God
  • Artistic aberrance and liminal geographies in Cristina García's Dreaming in Cuban
  • Clamped mouths and muted cries: stifled expression in Julia Alvarez's How the García girls lost their accents
  • Conclusion: hope in the interstices.