Transnational Latina Narratives in the Twenty-first Century

The Politics of Gender, Race, and Migrations

Juanita Heredia

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN: 9780230617377
• eBook ISBN: 9780230623255
• Topic: Literature
• Subtopic: Literary Criticism
• Index: Literature

Transnational Latina Narratives is the first critical study of its kind to examine twenty-first-century Latina narratives by female authors of diverse Latin American heritages based in the U.S. Heredia s comparative perspective on gender, race and migrations between Latin America and the U.S. demonstrates the changing national landscape that needs to accommodate an ever-growing Latino/a presence. This book draws on the work of Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Marta Moreno Vega, Angie Cruz, and Marie Arana, as well as a diverse blend of popular culture. Heredia s thought-provoking insights seek to empower the representation of women who are transnational ambassadors in modern trans-American literature.

Table of contents

• Half-Title
• Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: Transnational Latina Narratives
• One: Denise Chávez’s Loving Pedro Infante (2001): The Making of a Transnational Border Community
• Two: Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo (2002): Translating Gender and Genealogy Across the U.S./Mexico Borderlands
• Three: Marta Moreno Vega’s When the Spirits Dance Mambo: Growing Up Nuyorican in EI Barrio (2004): The Diasporic Formation of an Afro-Latina Identity
• Four: Angie Cruz’s Let It Rain Coffee (2005): A Diasporic Response to Multiracial Dominican Migrations
• Five: Marie Arana’s American Chica (2001): Circular Voyages in the U.S./Peruvian Archipelago
• Conclusion: Toward a Pan-Latina Global Alliance
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Permissions/Credits
• Index