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In this chapter, Fernández-García offers a brief overview of the most common patterns for representing Latina girls in scholarly work, television, cinema, and in children’s and young adult literature by US Latina writers. It also gives an account of the patriarchal discourses that the characters under study have to negotiate: marianismo, machismo, and malinchismo. Drawing on decolonial and border thinking, this chapter also theorizes the Bildungsroman by US Latina authors as a discursive space that brings about the decolonization and redefinition of paradigms and concepts. The chapter closes with a detailed account of decolonial and border thinking, the paradigm through which identities and spaces are made sense of and interpreted in this study.

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Fernández-García, A. (2020). Latina Girlhood: Questions of Identity and Representation. In: Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing. Literatures of the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-20107-4_2

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