Barbara Roche Rico
Biographic Data
| ID | 6428701 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Roche Rico |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara Roche |
| FAMILY NAME | Rico |
| SIGNATURE | RICO B R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Loyola Marymount University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Confronting Girl-bullying and Gaining Voice in Two Novels by Nicholasa Mohr
In this article I examine the representation of bullying in Felita (1979) and Going Home (1986), two novels by Nicholasa Mohr, an important but critically overlooked author of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. Using material from current research in the social sciences as well as a close reading of the texts, I explore the emergence of the female subject from behind her self-definition as a victim of girl-bullying. The girl’s involvement with art enable…
An Island Like You’
The short stories of Nicholasa Mohr and Judith Ortiz Cofer, two of the most prolific ‘Rican’ writers living on the US mainland, have received little critical attention. Connecting her work with global postcolonialism, Mohr has called herself a ‘daughter of the Puerto Rican Diaspora’. Mohr’s El Bronx Remembered – a collection of stories set in the first wave of migration (from 1946 to 56) – focuses on people living in what Mohr has called a ‘villa…
Rituals of Survival
Rituals of Survival":A Critical Reassessment of the Fiction of Nicholasa Mohr Barbara Roche Rico (bio) Back in 1972, I was asked to write a novel based on short series of vignettes I had completed. It was then that I decided that if I as a woman and my ethnic community did not exist in North American letters, then we would now. Nicholasa Mohr, "The Journey toward a Common Ground"1 The first Puerto Rican woman writer to have her fiction published …
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Rituals of Survival
Rituals of Survival":A Critical Reassessment of the Fiction of Nicholasa Mohr Barbara Roche Rico (bio) Back in 1972, I was asked to write a novel based on short series of vignettes I had completed. It was then that I decided that if I as a woman and my ethnic community did not exist in North American letters, then we would now. Nicholasa Mohr, "The Journey toward a Common Ground"1 The first Puerto Rican woman writer to have her fiction published …
An Island Like You’
The short stories of Nicholasa Mohr and Judith Ortiz Cofer, two of the most prolific ‘Rican’ writers living on the US mainland, have received little critical attention. Connecting her work with global postcolonialism, Mohr has called herself a ‘daughter of the Puerto Rican Diaspora’. Mohr’s El Bronx Remembered – a collection of stories set in the first wave of migration (from 1946 to 56) – focuses on people living in what Mohr has called a ‘villa…
Confronting Girl-bullying and Gaining Voice in Two Novels by Nicholasa Mohr
In this article I examine the representation of bullying in Felita (1979) and Going Home (1986), two novels by Nicholasa Mohr, an important but critically overlooked author of the Puerto Rican Diaspora. Using material from current research in the social sciences as well as a close reading of the texts, I explore the emergence of the female subject from behind her self-definition as a victim of girl-bullying. The girl’s involvement with art enable…
Art (2 works) · Diaspora (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · Gender Studies (2 works) · History (2 works) · History (2 works) · Latin American and Latino Studies (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Representation (politics (2 works) · Sociology (2 works)