Intersections of Harm : : Narratives of Latina Deviance and Defiance / / Laura Halperin.

In this innovative new study, Laura Halperin examines literary representations of harm inflicted on Latinas' minds and bodies, and on the places Latinas inhabit, but she also explores how hope can be found amid so much harm. Analyzing contemporary memoirs and novels by Irene Vilar, Loida Maritz...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Rutgers University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New Brunswick, NJ : : Rutgers University Press, , [2015]
©2015
Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (254 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Contextualizing Harm
  • 1 / Rape'S Shadow: Seized Freedoms In Irene Vilar'S The Ladies' Gallery And Impossible Motherhood
  • 2 / Violated Bodies And Assaulting Landscapes In Loida Maritza Pérez'S Geographies Of Home
  • 3 / Madness'S Material Consequences In Ana Castillo'S So Far From God
  • 4 / Artistic Aberrance And Liminal Geographies In Cristina García'S Dreaming In Cuban
  • 5 / Clamped Mouths And Muted Cries: Stifled Expression In Julia Alvarez'S How The García Girls Lost Their Accents
  • Conclusion: Hope In The Interstices
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index
  • About The Author