Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity

by David J. Vázquez and David J Vazquez

Book Overview

Just as mariners use triangulation, mapping an imaginary triangle between two known positions and an unknown location, so, David J. V zquez contends, Latino authors in late twentieth-century America employ the coordinates of familiar ideas of self to find their way to new, complex identities. Through this metaphor, V zquez reveals how Latino autobiographical texts, written after the rise of cultural nationalism in the 1960s, challenge mainstream...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0816673276
• ISBN13: 9780816673278
• Release Date: September 2011
• Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.4" x 8.3"