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Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing - Decolonizing Spaces and Identities (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
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Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing - Decolonizing Spaces and Identities (Paperback, 1st ed. 2020)
Series: Literatures of the Americas
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This book is an in-depth study of Latina girls, portrayed in five
coming-of-age narratives by using spaces and places as
hermeneutical tools. The texts under study here are Julia Alvarez's
Return to Sender (2009), Norma E. Cantu's Canicula: Snapshots of a
Girlhood en la Frontera (1995), Mary Helen Ponce's Hoyt Street: An
Autobiography (1993), and Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto
Rican (1993) and Almost a Woman (1998). Unlike most representations
of Latina girls, which are characterized by cultural inaccuracies,
tropes of exoticism, and a tendency to associate the host society
with modernity and their girls' cultures of origin with
backwardness and oppression, these texts contribute to reimagining
the social differently from what the dominant imagery offers. By
illustrating the vexing phenomena the characters have to negotiate
on a daily basis (such as racism, sexism, and displacement), these
narratives open avenues for a critical exploration of the legacies
of colonial modernity. This book, therefore, not only enables an
analysis of how the girls' development is shaped by these
structures of power, but also shows how such legacies are reversed
as the characters negotiate their identities. It breaks with the
longstanding characterization of young people, and especially
Latina girls, as voiceless and deprived of agency, showing readers
that this youth group also has say in controlling their lifeworlds.
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