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<journal-id>1665-8574</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Latinoamérica. Revista de estudios Latinoamericanos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Latinoamérica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1665-8574</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe]]></publisher-name>
</publisher>
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<article-id>S1665-85742006000100153</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Chicanos, boricuas y cubanos: las ficciones colectivas]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Casasa García]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Patricia]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,UNAM Escuela Nacional de Enfermería y Obstetricia ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2006</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>06</month>
<year>2006</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>42</numero>
<fpage>153</fpage>
<lpage>178</lpage>
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<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1665-85742006000100153&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1665-85742006000100153&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1665-85742006000100153&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: Hoy en día las principales actitudes literarias chicanas, puertorriqueñas y cubano-americanas, tanto de hombres como de mujeres, se reúnen en torno a la búsqueda de autodeterminación, la autodefinición, junto con un proceso de autoinvención entre varias culturas. Estas actitudes toman una perspectiva crítica, consciente de los rastros históricos que aporta, y cuya visión tiene como resultado un discurso teórico del proceso histórico con respecto al individuo y a la familia en sus momentos íntimos y en sus procesos cognitivos.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: Nowadays the main Chicano, Puerto Rican and Cuban American literary features, of men and women, are in search of selfdetermination and self-definition, along with a process of self-invention among several cultures. These features have a critical perspective that takes into consideration the historical traces, and the resulting vision is a theoretical discourse of the historical process regarding the person and the family in its more intimate moments and cognitive processes.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Autodefinición]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Ficción colectiva]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Literatura chicana/latina]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Autoinvención]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Self-definition]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Collective fiction]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Chicano/Latino literature]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Self-invention]]></kwd>
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