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Karen Christian

Between standing still and moving : reading U.S. Latina/o identity -- Invisible Chicanos : gay and lesbian identities in the fiction of Sheila Ortiz Taylor and John Rechy -- Identity as drag : performing gender and Cubanidad in The mambo kings play songsof love and The greatest performance -- Invention of the ethnic self in Latina immigrant fiction : The line of the sun and How the Garc ia girls lost their accents -- The ""boom"" in U.S. Latina/o fiction : performing magical realism in The love queen of the Amazon and So far from God.

Christian [adds] a fresh, bold voice to the anti-essentialist debate surrounding ethnic and gender identity. . . . This study is also among the first to examine trends across the spectrum of cultures represented in U.S. Latina/o literature . . . Christian convincingly challenges the notion of a homogenous Latina/o ethnic identity. . . . an excellent example of her ability to adapt critical theory to a sophisticated analysis of contemporary Latina/o literature. Christian is persuasive and maneuvers through a great deal of philosophical and theoretical literature with ease. Christian Yadds? a fresh, bold voice to the anti-essentialist debate surrounding ethnic and gender identity. . . . This study is also among the first to examine trends across the spectrum of cultures represented in U.S. Latina/o literature . . . "Christian convincingly challenges the notion of a homogenous Latina/o ethnic identity. . . . an excellent example of her ability to adapt critical theory to a sophisticated analysis of contemporary Latina/o literature."