Show and Tell: Identity as Performance in U.S. Latina/o Fiction Hardcover – November 1, 1997
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| Management number | 221759001 | Release Date | 2026/05/03 | List Price | US$18.00 | Model Number | 221759001 | ||
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What makes John Rechy a Chicano writer? To be Latino, must writing have a touch of "magical realism"? Can one talk of U.S. Latina/o identity, considering the diversity of the Latina/o experience? Through the analysis of nine recent Latino/a novels, Karen Christian answers these and other questions, thereby adding a fresh, bold voice to the anti-essentialist debate surrounding ethnic and gender identity. Christian melds the theory of "performativity" with the latest scholarship on ethnicity and ethnic literature to create a framework for viewing identity as a continuous process that cannot be reduced to static categories. Through their narrative "performances," U.S. Latina/o writers and their characters move among communities and identities in an ongoing challenge to the notion of Latina/o essence. This study is also among the first to examine trends across the spectrum of cultures represented in U.S. Latina/o literature--from Chicano to Cuban to Puerto Rican to Dominican.Show and Tell is essential for any serious student of Latina/o literature and identity. Read more
| ISBN10 | 0826317960 |
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| ISBN13 | 978-0826317964 |
| Edition | First Edition |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | University of New Mexico Press |
| Dimensions | 6.24 x 0.82 x 9.26 inches |
| Item Weight | 1.1 pounds |
| Print length | 201 pages |
| Publication date | November 1, 1997 |
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