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Ilan Stavans
Book Code: GR4806
ISBN: 0-313-34806-5
ISBN-13: 978-0-313-34806-8
148 pages
Greenwood Press
Publication: 6/30/2008
List Price: $55.00 (UK Sterling Price: £31.95)
Availability: In Stock
Media Type: Hardcover
Also Available: Ebook
Trim Size: 6 1/8 x 9 1/4
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Description: Latina literature is one of the fastest growing areas of American literature today, and the impact Latina writers have had on the literary scene is undeniable. This volume features the most significant articles<EM>-</EM>including peer-review essays, interviews, and reviews<EM>- </EM>to bring together the best scholarship on Latina writers ever compiled. Learn about these authors' lives and extraordinary careers, as well as the social and political issues their works address. 10 signed articles, essays, and interviews are included in the volume, which encourage readers to examine Latina writers from a wide variety of theoretical perspectives, including feminism, postmodernism, postcolonialism, gender, border, linguistic, and pan-American studies. Also featured is an introduction by Ilan Stavans, one of the foremost authorities on Latino culture, to provide historical background and cultural context and suggestions for further reading to aid students in their research.
Table of Contents:
  • Contents
  • Series Foreword
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • I. Appreciations
  • Saddling La Gringa: Major Themes in the Works of Latina Writers
  • Chicana Feminist Criticism
  • What Doesn't Kill You, Makes You Fat: The Language of Food in Latina Literature
  • New Ways of Telling: Latinas' Narratives of Exile and Return
  • Gloria Anzaldas Queer Mestisaje
  • Form over Content
  • II.Testimonios
  • Between the Milkman and the Fax Machine: Challenges to Women Writers in the Caribbean
  • Attempting Perfection: An Interview with Judith Ortiz Cofer
  • Write These Messages That Come
  • And Frida Looks Back: The Art of Latina/o Queer Heroics
  • Conversations with Ilan Stavans
  • Selected Bibliography
  • Index
  • About the Editor and Contributors
LC Card Number: 2008007879
LCC Class: PS153
Dewey Class: 810
PDF Catalogs:
Greenwood Multicultural Spring 2008.pdf
Academic Library Fall 2008.pdf
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