How Long to Read Find Yourself Here

How Long Does it Take to Read Find Yourself Here?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 17 minutes to read Find Yourself Here by Cristina Rodriguez

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

"Find Yourself Here" argues that since transmigrants often form profound connections to place, we can develop a nuanced account of transmigrant subjectivity through innovative fiction by migrants who describe their own neighborhoods. The authors studied use their own hometowns as both setting and stylistic inspiration, deploying various formal techniques to mirror the fictional location to the real one, thus literarily enacting the neighborhood. I construct a neighborhood geography from each work, by traveling on foot, interviewing the neighbors and local historians, mapping the text's fictional setting upon the actual spaces it references, and teasing out connections between place, narrative form, and migrancy, to demonstrate how excavating the locale illuminates the text. My methodology is interdisciplinary: it incorporates recent sociological studies of transnationalism by Linda Basch, Patricia Pessar, and Jorge Duany, tenets of Human Geography, and the work of Latino literary theorists including Raúl Homero Villa and Mary Pat Bray on space in narrative. My literary neighborhood geographies of Salvador Plascencia's El Monte barrio, Junot Diaz's New Jersey housing development, Sandra Cisneros's Westside Chicago, and Helena Maria Viramontes' East Los Angeles--sharpen Latino literary criticism's long-standing focus on urban and regional spaces in narrative by zooming in on neighborhood streets, while building on contemporary theories of transnationalism to analyze the broader cultural implications of local migrancy. By grounding the effects of transmigrancy in concrete locations, "Find Yourself Here" presents a comprehensive vision of the US Latino immigrant experience without generalizing from its myriad versions and numerous sites.

How long is Find Yourself Here?

Find Yourself Here by Cristina Rodriguez is 249 pages long, and a total of 64,491 words.

This makes it 84% the length of the average book. It also has 79% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Find Yourself Here Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 5 hours and 52 minutes to read Find Yourself Here aloud.

What Reading Level is Find Yourself Here?

Find Yourself Here is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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