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Show and tell : identity as performance in U.S. Latina/o fiction /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Christian, Karen, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, [1997]
Edition:1st ed.
Subjects:
American fiction > History and criticism.
American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism.
Hispanic Americans > Intellectual life.
Hispanic Americans in literature.
Group identity in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Between standing still and moving : reading U.S. Latina/o identity
  • Invisible Chicanos : gay and lesbian identities in the fiction of Sheila Ortiz Taylor and John Rechy
  • Identity as drag : performing gender and Cubanidad in The mambo kings play songs of love and The greatest performance
  • Invention of the ethnic self in Latina immigrant fiction : The line of the sun and How the García girls lost their accents
  • The "boom" in U.S. Latina/o fiction : performing magical realism in The love queen of the Amazon and So far from God.