Research Catalog

Details

Description

1. xi, 189 p.; 24 cm.

Alternative title

1. Show & tell

Subject

1. Hispanic Americans in literature
2. Group identity in literature
3. American fiction > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism
4. American fiction > 20th century > History and criticism
5. Hispanic Americans > Intellectual life
6. Ethnic groups in literature

Contents

1. 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.

Call number

1. JFE 98-2911

Bibliography (note)

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.

Author

1. Christian, Karen, 1960-

Title

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

Imprint

1. Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, c1997.

Edition

1. 1st ed.

Bibliography

1. Includes bibliographical references (p. 177-184) and index.

Cover title

1. Show & tell

LCCN

1. 97004875

ISBN

1. 0826317960
2. 0826318312 (pbk.)

Research call number

1. JFE 98-2911