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Author :Antonia Domínguez Miguela Publisher :Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva ISBN 13 :8418984082 Total Pages :298 pages Book Rating :4.4/5 (189 download)
Book Synopsis EVOLVING ORIGINS, TRANSPLANTING CULTURES by : Antonia Domínguez Miguela
Download or read book EVOLVING ORIGINS, TRANSPLANTING CULTURES written by Antonia Domínguez Miguela and published by Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. This book was released on 2021-10-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colección de ensayos críticos de obras literarias norteamericanas firmadas por escritores exiliados y emigrantes, o por sus descendientes, ya nacidos en EE.UU., de origen cubano, mexicano, puertorriqueño, dominicano, asiático, afrocaribeño y europeo. Las obras literarias que se analizan fueron publicadas después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, si bien se han incluido otras anteriores por ser antecedentes de esta literatura de diversas diásporas. The volume is a collection of critical essays on North American literary works produced by immigrant and exiled writers or American-born descendants of Cuban. Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Asian, European, and Afro-Caribbean origin. These literary works were published after the Second World War even though some earlier works have been included as antecedents of these literatures of diasporas. They create an amalgam of what being an American means in contemporary society.
Book Synopsis Writing Off the Hyphen by : Jose L. Torres-Padilla
Download or read book Writing Off the Hyphen written by Jose L. Torres-Padilla and published by University of Washington Press. This book was released on 2011-12-01 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The sixteen essays in Writing Off the Hyphen approach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora from current theoretical positions, with provocative and insightful results. The authors analyze how the diasporic experience of Puerto Ricans is played out in the context of class, race, gender, and sexuality and how other themes emerging from postcolonialism and postmodernism come into play. Their critical work also demonstrates an understanding of how the process of migration and the relations between Puerto Rico and the United States complicate notions of cultural and national identity as writers confront their bilingual, bicultural, and transnational realities. The collection has considerable breadth and depth. It covers earlier, undertheorized writers such as Luisa Capetillo, Pedro Juan Labarthe, Bernardo Vega, Pura Belpré, Arturo Schomburg, and Graciany Miranda Archilla. Prominent writers such as Rosario Ferré and Judith Ortiz Cofer are discussed alongside often-neglected writers such as Honolulu-based Rodney Morales and gay writer Manuel Ramos Otero. The essays cover all the genres and demonstrate that current theoretical ideas and approaches create exciting opportunities and possibilities for the study of Puerto Rican diasporic literature.
Book Synopsis Evolving Origins, Transplanting Cultures by : Pilar Cuder Domínguez
Download or read book Evolving Origins, Transplanting Cultures written by Pilar Cuder Domínguez and published by . This book was released on 2002-01-11 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Se trata del volumen XI de la revista de la Sociedad Española de Estudios Renacentistas Ingleses, que tiene como base una selección de artículos y ensayos presentados en la XI reunión de dicha sociedad celebrada en Huelva en el mes de marzo del año 2002. La obra se divide en cinco grandes apartados: Renaissance Literature, Shakespeare Studies; Historical Linguistics, Restoration Literature y Renaissance and Restoration Cultural Studies.
Book Synopsis Inhabiting La Patria by : Rebecca L. Harrison
Download or read book Inhabiting La Patria written by Rebecca L. Harrison and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2013-11-08 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first collection of critical essays on the works of Dominican American author Julia Alvarez. A prolific writer of nearly two dozen books of poetry, fiction, nonfiction, and children's literature, Alvarez has garnered numerous international accolades, including the impressive F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Outstanding Achievement in American Literature. She was one of only ten poets invited to write for President Obama's inauguration in 2009, and her In the Time of the Butterflies was selected as a National Endowment for the Arts "Big Read," putting her in the company of Mark Twain, Zora Neale Hurston, and Harper Lee. Yet, despite Alvarez's commercial success and flourishing critical reputation, much of the published scholarship has focused on her two best-known novels—In the Time of the Butterflies and How the García Girls Lost Their Accents. Moving beyond Alvarez's more recognizable work, the contributors here approach her wider canon from different points of access and with diverging critical tools. This enriches current discussions on the construction of selves in life writing, and nonfiction more generally, and furthers our understanding of these selves as particular kinds of participants in the creation of nation and place. In addition, this book provides fresh insight for transnational feminist studies and makes a meaningful contribution to the broader study of the gendered diaspora, as it positions Alvarez scholarship in a global context.
Book Synopsis The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature by : R. Dalleo
Download or read book The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature written by R. Dalleo and published by Springer. This book was released on 2007-06-11 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market.
Book Synopsis Reading Julia Alvarez by : Alice L. Trupe
Download or read book Reading Julia Alvarez written by Alice L. Trupe and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2011-03-21 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This comprehensive overview of Julia Alvarez's fiction, nonfiction, and poetry offers biographical information and parses the author's important works and the intentions behind them. Reading Julia Alvarez reviews the author's acclaimed body of writing, exploring both the works and the woman behind them. The guide opens with a brief biography that includes the saga of the Alvarez family's flight from the Dominican Republic when Julia was ten, and carries her story through the philanthropic organic coffee farm that she and her husband now operate in that nation. The heart of the book is a broad overview of Alvarez's literary achievements, followed by chapters that discuss individual works and a chapter on her poetry. The book also looks at how the author's writings grapple with and illuminate contemporary issues, and at Alvarez's place in pop culture, including an examination of film adaptations of her books. Through this guide, readers will better understand the relevance of Alvarez's works to their own lives and to new ways of thinking about current events.
Book Synopsis A Critical Collection on Alejandro Morales by : Marc García-Martínez
Download or read book A Critical Collection on Alejandro Morales written by Marc García-Martínez and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2021 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The fourteen essays included in this compendium examine Morales' novels and short stories.
Book Synopsis Queer Times, Queer Becomings by : E. L. McCallum
Download or read book Queer Times, Queer Becomings written by E. L. McCallum and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2011-11 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Queer theory essays on time and becoming in the fields of literature, philosophy, film, and performance.
Download or read book Begin Here written by Rocio G. Davis and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2007-01-31 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An analytically innovative work, Begin Here widens the current critical focus of Asian North American literary studies by proposing an integrated thematic and narratological approach to the practice of autobiography. It demonstrates how Asian North American memoirs of childhood challenge the construction and performative potential of national experiences. This understanding influences theoretical approaches to ethnic life writing, expanding the boundaries of traditional autobiography by negotiating narrative techniques and genre and raising complex questions about self-representation and the construction of cultural memory. By examining the artistic project of some fifty Asian North American writers who deploy their childhood narratives in the representation of the individual processes of self-identification and negotiation of cultural and national affiliation, this work provides a comprehensive overview of Asian North American autobiographies of childhood published over the last century. Importantly, it also attends to new ways of writing autobiographies, employing comics, blending verse, prose, diaries, and life writing for children, and using relational approaches to self-identification, among others.
Book Synopsis The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature by : Suzanne Bost
Download or read book The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature written by Suzanne Bost and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature presents over forty essays by leading and emerging international scholars of Latino/a literature and analyses: Regional, cultural and sexual identities in Latino/a literature Worldviews and traditions of Latino/a cultural creation Latino/a literature in different international contexts The impact of differing literary forms of Latino/a literature The politics of canon formation in Latino/a literature. This collection provides a map of the critical issues central to the discipline, as well as uncovering new perspectives and new directions for the development of this literary culture.
Book Synopsis Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street by : Harold Bloom
Download or read book Sandra Cisneros's The House on Mango Street written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2010 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays exploring various aspects of Sandra Cisneros' novel "The House on Mango Street."
Book Synopsis New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures by : Victoria Aarons
Download or read book New Directions in Jewish American and Holocaust Literatures written by Victoria Aarons and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-02-28 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Surveys the current state of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures as well as approaches to teaching them. What does it mean to read, and to teach, Jewish American and Holocaust literatures in the early decades of the twenty-first century? New directions and new forms of expression have emerged, both in the invention of narratives and in the methodologies and discursive approaches taken toward these texts. The premise of this book is that despite moving farther away in time, the Holocaust continues to shape and inform contemporary Jewish American writing. Divided into analytical and pedagogical sections, the chapters present a range of possibilities for thinking about these literatures. Contributors address such genres as biography, the graphic novel, alternate history, midrash, poetry, and third-generation and hidden-child Holocaust narratives. Both canonical and contemporary authors are covered, including Michael Chabon, Nathan Englander, Anne Frank, Dara Horn, Joe Kupert, Philip Roth, and William Styron. The range of critical approaches and authors examined makes this a valuable resource for scholars and teachers. Particularly in this troubling political moment, meditations on the new and continued relevance of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures for scholars, students, and the American public in general are invaluable. Sharon B. Oster, author of No Place in Time: The Hebraic Myth in Late Nineteenth-Century American Literature
Book Synopsis Luso-American Literature by : Robert Henry Moser
Download or read book Luso-American Literature written by Robert Henry Moser and published by Rutgers University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 415 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Portuguese and Cape Verdean immigrants have had a significant presence in North America since the nineteenth century. Recently, Brazilians have also established vibrant communities in the U.S. This anthology brings together, for the first time in English, the writings of these diverse Portuguese-speaking, or "Luso-American" voices. Historically linked by language, colonial experience, and cultural influence, yet ethnically distinct, Luso-Americans have often been labeled an "invisible minority." This collection seeks to address this lacuna, with a broad mosaic of prose, poetry, essays, memoir, and other writings by more than fifty prominent literary figures--immigrants and their descendants, as well as exiles and sojourners. It is an unprecedented gathering of published, unpublished, forgotten, and translated writings by a transnational community that both defies the stereotypes of ethnic literature, and embodies the drama of the immigrant experience.
Book Synopsis Mobile Narratives by : Eleftheria Arapoglou
Download or read book Mobile Narratives written by Eleftheria Arapoglou and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-08-15 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Emphasizing the role of travel and migration in the performance and transformation of identity, this volume addresses representations of travel, mobility, and migration in 19th–21st-century travel writing, literature, and media texts. In so doing, the book analyses the role of the various cultural, ethnic, gender, and national encounters pertinent to narratives of travel and migration in transforming and problematizing the identities of both the travelers and "travelees" enacting in the borderzones between cultures. While the individual essays by scholars from a wide range of countries deal with a variety of case studies from various historical, spatial, and cultural locations, they share a strong central interest in the ways in which the narratives of travel contribute to the imagining of ethnic encounters and how they have acted as sites of transformation and transculturation from the early nineteenth century to the present day. In addition to discussing textual representations of travel and migration, the volume also addresses the ways in which cultural texts themselves travel and are reconstructed in various cultural settings. The analyses are particularly attentive to the issues of globalization and migration, which provide a general frame for interpretation. What distinguishes the volume from existing books is its concern with travel and migration as ways of forging transcultural identities that are able to subvert existing categorizations and binary models of identity formation. In so doing, it pays particular attention to the performance of identity in various spaces of cultural encounter, ranging from North America to the East of Europe, putting particular emphasis on the representation of intercultural and ethnic encounters.
Book Synopsis Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature by : Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger
Download or read book Identity, Diaspora and Return in American Literature written by Maria Antònia Oliver-Rotger and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-09-19 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume combines literary analysis and theoretical approaches to mobility, diasporic identities and the construction of space to explore the different ways in which the notion of return shapes contemporary ethnic writing such as fiction, ethnography, memoir, and film. Through a wide variety of ethnic experiences ranging from the Transatlantic, Asian American, Latino/a and Caribbean alongside their corresponding forms of displacement - political exile, war trauma, and economic migration - the essays in this collection connect the intimate experience of the returning subject to multiple locations, historical experiences, inter-subjective relations, and cultural interactions. They challenge the idea of the narrative of return as a journey back to the untouched roots and home that the ethnic subject left behind. Their diacritical approach combines, on the one hand, a sensitivity to the context and structural elements of modern diaspora; and on the other, an analysis of the individual psychological processes inherent to the experience of displacement and return such as nostalgia, memory and belonging. In the narratives of return analyzed in this volume, space and identity are never static or easily definable; rather, they are in-process and subject to change as they are always entangled in the historical and inter-subjective relations ensuing from displacement and mobility. This book will interest students and scholars who wish to further explore the role of American literature within current debates on globalization, migration, and ethnicity.
Book Synopsis Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club by : Harold Bloom
Download or read book Amy Tan's The Joy Luck Club written by Harold Bloom and published by Infobase Publishing. This book was released on 2009 with total page 203 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents essays analyzing the author's work by subject matter, theme and motif.
Book Synopsis Bernard Malamud by : Victoria Aarons
Download or read book Bernard Malamud written by Victoria Aarons and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 2016-09-12 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Master storyteller and literary stylist Bernard Malamud is considered one of the top three most influential postwar American Jewish writers, having established a voice and a presence for other authors in the literary canon. Along with Philip Roth and Saul Bellow, Malamud brought to life a decidedly American Jewish protagonist and a newly emergent voice that came to define American letters and that has continued to influence writers for over half a century. This collection is a tribute to Malamud in honor of the hundredth anniversary of his birth. Literary critic Harold Bloom suggests that “Malamud is perhaps the purest storyteller since Leskov,” the nineteenth-century Russian novelist and satirist. Novelist Cynthia Ozick, in a tribute to Malamud, described him as “the very writer who had brought into being a new American idiom of his own idiosyncratic invention.” Unlike other collections devoted to Malamud, this collection is international in scope, compiling diverse essays from the United States, France, Germany, Greece, and Spain, and demonstrating the wide range of scholarship and approaches to Bernard Malamud’s fiction. The essays show the breadth and depth of this masterful craftsman and explore through his short fiction and his novels such topics as the Malamudian protagonist’s relation to the urban/natural space; Malamud’s approach to death; race and ethnicity; the Malamudian hero as modern schlemiel; and the role of fantasy in Malamud’s fiction. Bernard Malamud is a comprehensive collection that celebrates a voice that helped to shape the last fifty years of literary works. Readers of American literary criticism and Jewish studies alike will appreciate this collection.
