Los hombres, al igual que las mujeres, están marcados por el género, y por tanto han
experimentado procesos de género cultural e históricamente específicos. La buena noticia …

The American literary hero has often been portrayed as a self-willed orphan, an
individualistic character who breaks with his origins and begins a new life by himself, alone …

Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film Page 1 Josep M. Armengol
Rewriting White Masculinities in Contemporary Fiction and Film Page 2 Rewriting White …

This chapter analyzes the close, though often neglected, relationship between masculinity
and emotion in culture and history and, in doing so, the political potential of emotions to …

Drawing on critical frameworks, this study establishes the centrality of language, gender,
and community in the quest for identity in contemporary American fiction. Close readings of …

Denise Chávez's Face of an Angel (1994) explores testimony to individual and localized
sexual trauma linked to a transnational context. By situating the trauma her characters …

The early twenty-first century has witnessed an explosion of Chicana and Latina memoirs
published by both renowned and lesser known writers. Ana Castillo, Sandra Cisneros, Daisy …

Street (1983) and Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of Home (1999). In both cases, the
familial space is presented as one of oppression and confinement, in which fathers and …

Father/daughter relationships in Chicana literature are portrayed as rather volatile
relationships with the constant portrayal of macho fathers and unruly daughters. Through …

My dissertation aims to analyze twenty novels and some short stories that portray the decay
of the Hispano-American oligarchy, in the context of the economic and social change at the …