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Once Upon a Time on Mango Street [PDF]

, 2019
Undergraduate Textual or ...
Deornellis, Drake
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Crossing Borderlands: The Face of Chicana Border Literature [PDF]

, 2005
Chicana literature details the trials and tribulations of Chicana life at the borderlands of the United States and Mexico. In particular it focuses on different challenges Chicana women face at the borderlands they must cross.
Ruiz, Irene
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[Review of] Judith Ortiz Cofer. Silent Dancing: A Partial Remembrance of a Puerto Rican Childhood [PDF]

, 1992
This is a rather loose collection of cuentos, or stories, by a person of two very different worlds. In the years of her youth, Judith Ortiz was shuttled between Paterson, New Jersey, and Puerto Rico.
Costanzo, Angelo
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Él no es tu patria: violencia de género contra mujeres inmigrantes en la literatura latinoamericana

Revista Interdisciplinaria de Estudios de Género de El Colegio de México
En el presente trabajo se exploran las representaciones literarias de las expresiones físicas, psicológicas y económicas de la violencia ejercida contra mujeres inmigrantes por sus parejas sentimentales en el ámbito doméstico.
Marissa Gálvez Cuen
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Excerpt from Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity

Journal of Transnational American Studies, 2011
Just as mariners use triangulation, mapping an imaginary triangle between two known positions and an unknown location, so, David J. Vázquez contends, Latino authors in late twentieth-century America employ the coordinates of familiar ideas of self to ...
David J. Vázquez
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La narrativa de código mixto de Cisneros y sus implicaciones para la traducción

Mutatis Mutandis, 2008
Las consecuencias pragmáticas de la alternancia de código en el campo de la traducción literaria han sido poco estudiadas, especialmente en el caso de las novelas chicanas escritas en inglés, pero que alternan al español por razones estilísticas ...
María José García Vizcaíno
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Shortcomings and Limitations of Identity Politics and Intersectionality in Sandra Cisneros’s The House on Mango Street

Acta Neophilologica, 2018
The article offers a systematic critique of identity politics and intersectionality that today dominate Western mainstream literary theory and Anglo-Saxon literary production by bringing to the fore a much overlooked critical intervention on the part of
Lilijana Burcar
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Latina Humor in the Works of Sandra Cisneros

Acta Hispanica, 2020
Abstract: The paper discusses three works written by Sandra Cisneros, namely Woman Hollering Creek, The House on Mango Street and Caramelo, from the point of view of women’s humor. With the help of these works, it is argued that Cisneros uses Latina humor in order to highlight intersectional problems concerning her identity and to reveal important ...
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[Review of] Elionne Belden. Claiming Chinese Identity [PDF]

, 1997
Thirty years ago, when the field of Asian American studies was in its infancy, identity was one of the subjects that received much attention. Since then, a good deal of research on or related to identity has been conducted, and, in the past few years ...
Endo, Russell
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Handmaidens to Translators versus Feminist Solidarity – Opposing Politics of Translation in the Galician Literary System

TranscUlturAl, 2015
Lori Chamberlain’s eye-opening article “Gender and the Metaphorics of Translation”, originally published in 1988, first described translators in general as “handmaidens to authors”.
Maria Reimondez
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