Kissing the mango tree

Description:

"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."--BOOK JACKET.

subjects: American literature,  Feminism and literature,  History,  History and criticism,  Intellectual life,  Puerto Rican Authors,  Puerto Rican literature,  Puerto Rican women,  Puerto Ricans in literature,  Women and literature,  Women authors,  LITERARY CRITICISM,  American,  General,  Literatur,  Schriftstellerin,  Frauenliteratur

Places: United States

Times: 20th century