[PDF] The Meaning Of Consuelo eBook

Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : Beacon Press
Page : 210 pages
File Size : 16,93 MB
Release : 2004-03-30
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780807083871

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The Signe family is blessed with two daughters. Consuelo, the elder, is thought of as pensive and book-loving, the serious child-la niña seria-while Mili, her younger sister, is seen as vivacious, a ray of tropical sunshine. Two daughters: one dark, one light; one to offer comfort and consolation, the other to charm and delight. But, for all the joy both girls should bring, something is not right in this Puerto Rican family; a tragedia is developing, like a tumor, at its core. In this fierce, funny, and sometimes startling novel, we follow a young woman's quest to negotiate her own terms of survival within the confines of her culture and her family. magazine "Judith Ortiz Cofer has created a character who takes us by the hand on a journey of self-discovery. She reminds readers young and old never to forget our own responsibilities, and to enjoy life with all its joys and sorrows."--Bessy Reyna, MultiCultural Review

Author : Bridget A. Kevane
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,17 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780742543157

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Profane & Sacred examines religious discourse in contemporary Latino/a fiction, exploring how religion creates, mediates or changes Latino culture and identity. Much contemporary literary criticism on Latino/a literature has focused on the bilingual and bicultural nature of Latino identity, history and cultural production. But just as the multiplicity of cultures and languages has shaped Latino identity and history, so too has religion. Studying the religious discourse found in fiction can clearly enrich not only our perception of the diversity within the Hispanic communities, but also the diversity between sociologists and creative writers.

Author : Maya Socolovsky
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 20,6 MB
Release : 2013-06-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0813561191

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This book examines the ways in which recent U.S. Latina literature challenges popular definitions of nationhood and national identity. It explores a group of feminist texts that are representative of the U.S. Latina literary boom of the 1980s, 1990s, and 2000s, when an emerging group of writers gained prominence in mainstream and academic circles. Through close readings of select contemporary Mexican American, Puerto Rican, and Cuban American works, Maya Socolovsky argues that these narratives are “remapping” the United States so that it is fully integrated within a larger, hemispheric Americas. Looking at such concerns as nation, place, trauma, and storytelling, writers Denise Chavez, Sandra Cisneros, Esmeralda Santiago, Ana Castillo, Himilce Novas, and Judith Ortiz Cofer challenge popular views of Latino cultural “unbelonging” and make strong cases for the legitimate presence of Latinas/os within the United States. In this way, they also counter much of today’s anti-immigration rhetoric. Imagining the U.S. as part of a broader "Americas," these writings trouble imperialist notions of nationhood, in which political borders and a long history of intervention and colonization beyond those borders have come to shape and determine the dominant culture's writing and the defining of all Latinos as "other" to the nation.

Author : Luz Elena Ramirez
Publisher : Infobase Learning
Page : 1358 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2015-04-22
Category : American literature
ISBN : 1438140606

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Presents a reference on Hispanic American literature providing profiles of Hispanic American writers and their works.

Author : Judith Ortiz Cofer
Publisher : Scholastic Inc.
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 29,72 MB
Release : 2015-07-28
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 0545281547

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Judith Ortiz Cofer's Pura Belpre award-winning collection of short stories about life in the barrio! Rita is exiled to Puerto Rico for a summer with her grandparents after her parents catch her with a boy. Luis sits atop a six-foot mountain of hubcaps in his father's junkyard, working off a sentence for breaking and entering. Sandra tries to reconcile her looks to the conventional Latino notion of beauty. And Arturo, different from his macho classmates, fantasizes about escaping his community. They are the teenagers of the barrio -- and this is their world.

Author : Andrea O'Reilly
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 18,25 MB
Release : 2008-10-09
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0791477789

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Essays explore a wide range of contemporary feminist mothering practices.

Author : Karen S. Harper
Publisher : William Morrow
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 16,62 MB
Release : 2019
Category : FICTION
ISBN : 9781643852492

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Reimagines the life of American heiress Consuelo Vanderbilt as the reluctant and bullied bride of the Duke of Marlborough before she finds the inner strength to fight for women's equality.