Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing: Decolonizing Spaces and Identities

Chapter 1: Introduction.- Chapter 2: Latina Girls: Questions of Identity and Representation.- Chapter 3: Space of Flows vs. Space of Places: Negotiating the Paradoxes of a Global Age in Julia Alvarez's Return to Sender .- Chapter 4: Life on the Mexico-U.S. Border: Femininity, Transborderism, and the Reinscription of Boundaries in Norma E. Cantú's Canícula: Snapshots of a Girlhood en la Frontera .- Chapter 5: The Barrio as a Hybrid Space: Growing Up between Nationalism and Feminism in Mary Helen Ponce's Hoyt Street: An Autobiography .- Chapter 6: Continuities and Discontinuities between Home and School: Towards a Multi-layered Understanding of Social Spaces in Esmeralda Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican and Almost a Woman .- Chapter 7: Conclusions.