Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Esmeralda Santiago and the Bildungsroman of El Barrio
  • Nicholas Mohr and negation/negotiation of the mother-daughter relationship
  • The fluid identity of Rosario Morales and Aurora Levins Morales in Getting Home Alive
  • "Y si la patria es una mujer" : the political discourse of Sandra Maria Esteves
  • "I just met a girl named Maria" : Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera and the subversion of sexual/cultural stereotypes
  • Kissing the mango tree : Judith Ortiz Cofer and the ritual of storytelling.