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1 online resource. |
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Cultural frames, framing culture.
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Description based on print version record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Introduction: My hometown, Silver Spring, and the method of Walk the barrio -- Part I. West : Mexican American East Los Angeles. Californios to Californians : a brief history of Mexican American Los Angeles. "A world built on cement" : the El Monte aesthetic in Salvador Plascencia's The people of paper ; "Earthquakes or earthmovers" : the East L.A. Barrio and Helena María Viramontes's Their dogs came with them -- Part II. West : Central American Downtown Los Angeles. Displacement by and as war : Central American L.A. immigration, 1980-2010. "Los Angeles was the problem" : the war for space in Héctor Tobar's The tattooed soldier ; "The blackouts of a tiny country" : the art of William Archila's Salvadoran exile -- Part III. East : Dominican New York City. "The one from the other life" : the particularities of Dominican transnationalism. "No promises can survive that sea" : diasporic identity in Junot Díaz's This is how you lose her ; "Washington Heights is like a prison sentence" : female surveillance in Angie Cruz's Soledad -- Part IV. South : Cuban Miami. "Brown sugar histories" : Cuba and the United States in the twentieth century ; "Why don't I got a street?" : Little Havana in Richard Blanco's queer Cuban American Bildungsroman -- Conclusion : Your hometown and other barriographies. |
| Reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web. |
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Description based on print version record. |
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American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism.
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American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism.
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Literature and transnationalism -- United States.
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Hispanic American neighborhoods in literature.
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Place (Philosophy) in literature.
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Immigrants in literature.
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ProQuest (Firm)
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Online version: Rodriguez, Cristina, 1982- Walk the barrio Charlottesville : University of Virginia Press, 2022 9780813948072 (DLC) 2022008349 |
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Original 9780813948058 0813948053 9780813948065 0813948061 (DLC) 2022008348 |
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9780813948072 (electronic bk.) |
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081394807X (electronic bk.) |
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9780813948058 |
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0813948053 |
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9780813948065 |
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0813948061 |
| UPC # |
40031245423 |
| OCLC # |
EBC6801650 |
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