Harrison / Hipchen Inhabiting La Patria

Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez
1. Auflage 2013
ISBN: 978-1-4384-4906-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 254 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series in Multiethnic Literatures

Examines the work of prolific Dominican American writer Julia Alvarez.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Harrison, Rebecca L.

Hipchen, Emily

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Englische Literatur Amerikanische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Inhabiting La Patria: Identity, Agency, and Antojo in the Work of Julia Alvarez
Rebecca L. Harrison and Emily Hipchen

1. Julia Alverez and the Autobiographical Antojo
Lisa Ortiz-Vilarelle

2. ¡Yo! On the Margins: Dividing the Family and the Ethnic Writer as Traitor
Marion Rohrleitner

3. “Super-Size Me”: Ritual as Affluenza in Julia Alvarez’s Once upon a Quinceañera: Coming of Age in the USA
Sara Gerend

4. Rewriting Master Narratives: Julia Alvarez’s In the Time of the Butterflies
Katie Daily-Bruckner

5. Patriots and Citizens of the Planet: Friendship and Geopolitics in Julia Alvarez’s Young Adult Fiction
Susana S. Martínez

6. Isolation on Hybridity Road: Complexities of Identity Formation in Julia Alvarez’s Something to Declare
Karina A. Bautista

7. “Between the Scylla and the Charybdis”: Remapping Subjectivity in the Dialogic Waters of Julia Alvarez’s “The Other Side/El Otro Lado”
Andrea Witzke Slot

8. In the Name of Salomè: Julia Alvarez’s Feminist Discourse on La Patria
Tegan Zimmerman

9. The Hidden Archivist; Or, Julia Alvarez’s Historical Fiction beyond the Borders
Frans Weiser

List of Contributors
Index

Über Autor(innen)

At the University of West Georgia, Rebecca L. Harrison is Assistant Professor of English. At the University of West Georgia, Emily Hipchen is Associate Professor of English.