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Contents Agradecimientos Prelude Introduction: Intercultural Connections Chapter 1. "In Bed" with La Malinche: Stories of "Family" ê la Octavio Paz, Daniel Patrick Moynihan, and Oscar Lewis Chapter 2. La Malinche at the Intersection of Puerto Rican and African American Cultures: Piri Thomas and Down These Mean Streets Interlude 2. La Malinche: Shuffling the Puerto Rican Border in Spanish and Black Harlem Chapter 3. Of Nutshells, Frogs, and Men in Manchild in the Promised Land Interlude 3. Grandma Knows Best: The Women in Manchild in the Promised Land Chapter 4. Overcoming Self-Loathing, Learning to Love Brownness: Oscar Zeta Acosta and The Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo Interlude 4. The Brown Buffalo Puts On Blackface Epilogue: La Malinche Comes Home Notes Bibliography Copyright Acknowledgments Index
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
American literature -- Minority authors -- History and criticism.
American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism.
Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Intellectual life.
African Americans -- Intellectual life.
Mexican Americans -- Intellectual life.
African Americans in literature.
Mexican Americans in literature.
Puerto Ricans in literature.
Ethnic groups in literature.
Minorities in literature.
Sex role in literature.
Narration (Rhetoric).
Race in literature.