03256nam a2200517Ii 4500 DIGARTEP0079 NyNyDIG 150518t20022002txu ob 000 0 eng d m o d cr ||||||||||| DGITA eng rda pn DGITA 9781611921915 (eBook) 1611921910 (eBook) 1558853774 (alk. paper) 9781558853775 (alk. paper) (OCoLC)656861287 nwpr--- n-us--- PS153.P83 eBook Rivera, Carmen S. (Carmen Socorro), author. 95873 Kissing the mango tree : Puerto Rican women rewriting American literature / by Carmen S. Rivera. Houston, Texas : Arte Público Press, [2002] ©2002 1 online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references. Esmeralda Santiago and the Bildungsroman of El Barrio -- Nicholas Mohr and negation/negotiation of the mother-daughter relationship -- The fluid identity of Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales in Getting Home Alive -- "Y si la patria es una mujer" : the political discourse of Sandra Maria Esteves -- "I just met a girl named Maria" : Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera and the subversion of sexual/cultural stereotypes -- Kissing the mango tree : Judith Ortiz Cofer and the ritual of storytelling. "Kissing the Mango Tree is the first and only book to examine the works of the most popular Puerto Rican women writers from the perspective of feminist literary criticism. Rivera reconstructs the ethno-feminist aesthetic of Judith Ortiz Cofer, Sandra Maria Esteves, Nicholasa Mohr, Aurora Levins Morales, Rosario Morales, Esmeralda Santiago, and Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera." "This study is accompanied by a complete bibliography of the six writers' works and secondary sources of feminist, Latino and ethno-poetic criticism and theory."--Jacket. Online resource; title from PDF title page (Digitalia, viewed May 18, 2015) American literature Puerto Rican authors History and criticism. 95874 Puerto Rican literature Women authors History and criticism. 95875 Feminism and literature United States History 20th century. 95876 Women and literature United States History 20th century. 95877 American literature Women authors History and criticism. 95878 Puerto Rican women United States Intellectual life. 95879 Puerto Ricans in literature. 95880 Electronic books. Digitalia (Firm), distributor. Digitalia eBook Collection: Arte Público Press Print version: Rivera, Carmen S. (Carmen Socorro). Kissing the mango tree. Houston, Tex. : Arte Público Press, 2002 1558853774 (DLC) 2002066675 (OCoLC)49664447 Digitalia Hispánica https://login.zproxy.cun.edu.co/login?url=https://www.digitaliapublishing.com/a/23244/ Premium Collection: 2015 E-BOOK ddc 33499 33499