Postmodern Cross-Culturalism and Politicization in U.S. Latina Literature

Employing a comparative and cross-ethnic approach, this book provides a sophisticated literary and cultural analysis of texts by Mexican American, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, and Dominican American women writers. As she engages contemporary feminist, political, postcolonial, and psychoanalytic theory, Fatima Mujinovi investigates how selected U.S. Latina narratives have proposed a rethinking of minority subject positioning under the postmodern conditions of cultural hybridization, gender objectification, political oppression, and geographic displacement. In its emphasis on gendered, diasporic, exilic, and geopolitical identities, this book specifically examines works by Ana Castillo, Cristina García, Graciela Limón, Demetria Martínez, Rosario Morales, Aurora Levins Morales, Judith Ortiz Cofer, Helena María Viramontes, and Julia Alvarez.

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The Author: Fatima Muj inovi is Assistant Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Westminster College in Salt Lake City, Utah. She received her Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research includes U.S. ethnic literature, literature of the Americas, cultural studies, and literary theory and translation.