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In the 1980s there was a proliferation of poetry collections, short stories, and novels published by women of Latin American descent in the United States. ██ ███ ███ ██ ███ ███████ ███████ █████ ██ ████ ██████ ████████ ███ ██████████████ ████ ████ ████ ██████████ ████ ███ ███████████ ██ █████ ███████ ████████████████ ████████████ ██████ ██ ███ ███ ██████ ██ ███ █████ █████ ███ ███ ███████ ██ ████████ ███████ ███████ ████ ██████ ██ ██████ ██████ ███████ ███ ███████ ████████ ███ ██████████████ █████████ ██ ██████ ██████████

Intro topic · Three notable autobiographical collections by U.S. Latina authors

Expect the main point to relate to why these three collections are significant

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Significance of collections · They cross boundaries between languages, identities, and rhetorical styles

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Significance of first collection · Borderlands/La Frontera

Blends personal and cultural history using narrative and poetry

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Significance of second collection · Loving in the War Years

Blends genres, non-chronological sequence of events

Critic's perspective · Non-chronological writing sets women's autobiographies apart from men's

It's unclear if this critic thinks men's autobiographies never use non-chronological writing, but at the very least, it's not the traditional approach

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Significance of third collection · Getting Home Alive

Combines mother's and daughter's perspectives

Author's perspective · These complex narrative styles convey complex identities

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Main point · These three collections by U.S. Latina authors use innovative methods to express complex, marginalized identities

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The author never indicates that the Latina writers who experimented with autobiography formerly wrote mostly poetry and fiction.

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This best captures the point, which is that certain Latina writers were innovative in the way they wrote autobiographies.

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The author’s point isn’t about the diversity of styles and narrative strategies. The point is that certain Latina writers were innovative in the way they wrote their autobiographies.

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The author’s point isn’t about the possibility of combining nonfictional narrative with other genres. The point is that certain Latina writers were innovative in the way they wrote their autobiographies.

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The author’s point isn’t about the way critics have changed their view about something. The point is that certain Latina writers were innovative in the way they wrote their autobiographies.

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