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Author Moreno, Marisel C., 1973- author.

Title Family matters : Puerto Rican women authors on the island and the mainland / Marisel C. Moreno
Published Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 232 pages)
Series New World studies
New World studies.
Contents The literary canon and Puerto Rican national culture -- Our family, our nation: revisiting la gran familia puertorriquena -- Retrieving the past: the "silenced" narrate -- Patriarchal foundations: contesting gender/sexual paradigms -- Epilogue
Summary Adopting a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to Puerto Rican literature, the author juxtaposes narratives by insular and U.S. Puerto Rican women authors in order to examine their convergences and divergences. By showing how these writers use the trope of family to question the tenets of racial and social harmony, an idealized past, and patriarchal authority that sustain the foundational myth of la gran familia, she argues that this metaphor constitutes an overlooked literary contact zone between narratives from both sides. She proposes the recognition of a "transinsular" corpus to reflect the increasingly transnational character of the Puerto Rican population and addresses the need to broaden the literary canon in order to include the diaspora. Drawing on the fields of historiography, cultural studies, and gender studies, the author defies the tendency to examine these literary bodies independently of one another and therefore aims to present a more nuanced and holistic vision of this literature
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject American literature -- Puerto Rican authors -- History and criticism
Puerto Rican literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Families in literature.
Feminism and literature -- United States -- History -- 20th century
American literature -- Women authors -- History and criticism
Puerto Rican women -- United States -- Intellectual life
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Caribbean & Latin American.
American literature -- Puerto Rican authors
American literature -- Women authors
Families in literature
Feminism and literature
Puerto Rican literature -- Women authors
Puerto Ricanerin
Frauenliteratur
Minderheitenliteratur
Familie Motiv
United States
Puerto Rico
USA
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2012012746
ISBN 9780813933337
0813933331
9786613888440
6613888443