Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing : Decolonizing Spaces and Identities
2020 ed.
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Literatures of the Americas
ISBN-10
3030201090
ISBN-13
9783030201098
Edition
2020 ed.
Publisher
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Imprint
Springer Nature Switzerland AG
Country of Manufacture
CH
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Jan 21st, 2021
Print length
198 Pages
Product Classification:
Literary studies: from c 1900 -Literary studies: post-colonial literature
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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.
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.
By illustrating the vexing phenomena the characters have to negotiate on a daily basis (such as racism, sexism, and displacement), these narratives open avenues for a critical exploration of the legacies of colonial modernity. This book, therefore, not only enables an analysis of how the girls'' development is shaped by these structures of power, but also shows how such legacies are reversed as the characters negotiate their identities. It breaks with the longstanding characterization of young people, and especially Latina girls, as voiceless and deprived of agency, showing readers that this youth group also has say in controlling their lifeworlds.
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