Kissing the Mango Tree: Puerto Rican Women Rewriting American Literature

by Carmen S. Rivera

Overview

Kissing the Mango Tree is the first and only book to examine the works of the most popular Puerto Rican women writers from the perspective of feminist literary criticism. Rivera reconstructs the ethno-feminist aesthetic of Judith Ortiz Cofer, Sandra Maria Esteves, Nicholasa Mohr, Aurora Levins Morales, Esmeralda Santiago and Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781611926583
Publisher:	Arte Publico Press
Publication date:	10/31/2002
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
File size:	249 KB

Table of Contents

	Preface	ix
	Introduction	xi
Chapter 1	Esmeralda Santiago and the Bildungsroman of El Barrio	1
Chapter 2	Nicholasa Mohr and Negation/Negotiation of the Mother-Daughter Relationship	28
Chapter 3	The Fluid Identity of Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales in Getting Home Alive	56
Chapter 4	"Y si la patria es una mujer": The Political Discourse of Sandra Maria Esteves	76
Chapter 5	"I Just Met a Girl Named Maria": Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera and the Subversion of Sexual/Cultural Stereotypes	107
Chapter 6	Kissing the Mango Tree: Judith Ortiz Cofer and the Ritual of Storytelling	149
	Selected Bibliography	177