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"Shakin' up" race and gender :

Sánchez, Marta Ester.

"Shakin' up" race and gender : intercultural connections in Puerto Rican, African American, and Chicano narratives and culture (1965-1995) / "Shaking up" race and gender Marta E. Sánchez. - 1st ed. - Austin : University of Texas Press, 2005. - xvi, 202 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. - Chicana matters series .

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-188) and index.

"In bed" with La Malinche : stories of "family" à la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis -- La Malinche at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American cultures : Piri Thomas and Down these mean streets -- La Malinche : shuffling the Puerto Rican border in Spanish and Black Harlem -- Of nutshells, frogs, and men in Manchild in the promised land -- Grandma knows best : the women in Manchild in the promised land -- Overcoming self-loathing, learning to love brownness : Oscar Zeta Acosta and the autobiography of a brown buffalo.

0292706936 (alk. paper) 029270965X (pbk. : alk. paper)

2004030274


American literature--Minority authors--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--20th century
Puerto Ricans--Intellectual life.--United States
Narration (Rhetoric)--History--20th century.
African Americans--Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans--Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Puerto Ricans in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Race in literature.

PS 153 / .M56 2005
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