TY  - BOOK
AU  - Rivera,Carmen S.
TI  - Kissing the mango tree: Puerto Rican women rewriting American literature 
SN  - 9781611921915
AV  - PS153.P83 eBook 
PY  - 2002///]
CY  - Houston, Texas
PB  - Arte Público Press
KW  - American literature
KW  - Puerto Rican authors
KW  - History and criticism
KW  - Puerto Rican literature
KW  - Women authors
KW  - Feminism and literature
KW  - United States
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Women and literature
KW  - Puerto Rican women
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Puerto Ricans in literature
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references; 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
N2  - "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, Rosario Morales, Esmeralda Santiago, and Luz Maria Umpierre-Herrera." "This study is accompanied by a complete bibliography of the six writers' works and secondary sources of feminist, Latino and ethno-poetic criticism and theory."--Jacket
UR  - https://www.digitaliapublishing.com/a/23244/
ER  -