User profiles for Rafael Pérez-Torres

Rafael Pérez-Torres

- [Previously University College Cork (UCC), Previously CINVESTAV-Tamaulipas]
Verified email at tamps.cinvestav.mx
Cited by 105

[BOOK][B] Mestizaje: Critical uses of race in Chicano culture

R Pérez-Torres - 2006 - books.google.com
… in Chicano studies, Rafael Pérez-Torres reveals how the … and queer critiques, Pérez-Torres
skillfully analyzes Chicano … Turning to issues of mestizaje in literary creation, Pérez-Torres

[BOOK][B] Movements in Chicano poetry: Against myths, against margins

R Pérez-Torres - 1995 - books.google.com
… In this study, Pérez-Torres engages these critical issues in analyses of poems by such writers
Pérez-Torres argues that Chicano poetry, rather than excluding or denying, incorporates …

Refiguring Aztlán.”

R Pérez-Torres - Aztlán: Essays on the Chicano Homeland …, 2017 - books.google.com
Rafael Pérez-Torres one iMAge centrAl to Chicana and Chicano intellectual and social
thought has been the figure of Aztlán. Too often, the name of this mythic homeland is either …

KNITTING AND KNOTTING THE NARRATIVE THREAD—" BELOVED" AS POSTMODERN NOVEL

R Perez-Torres - Modern Fiction Studies, 1993 - JSTOR
Beloved weaves a story on a singular frame: interpretation rep resents an integral part of
black cultural and social identity. In Toni Morrison's book, the fictional characters and …

Chicano ethnicity, cultural hybridity, and the mestizo voice

R Pérez-Torres - American Literature, 1998 - JSTOR
In the beginning and unto the end was and is the lung: divine afflatus, baby's first yowl,
shaped air of speech, staccato gusts of laughter, exalted airs of song, happy lover's groan, …

Refiguring Aztlán

R Pérez-Torres - Aztlán: A Journal of Chicano Studies, 1997 - online.ucpress.edu
One image central to Chicano/Chicana intellectual and social thought has been the figure of
Aztlan. Too often, the name of this mythic homeland is either dismissed as part of an …

Power management techniques in smartphone-based mobility sensing systems: A survey

R Pérez-Torres, C Torres-Huitzil… - Pervasive and Mobile …, 2016 - Elsevier
The rapidly enhancing sensing capabilities of smartphones are enabling the development of
a wide range of innovative mobile sensing applications that are impacting on everyday life …

[HTML][HTML] Full on-device stay points detection in smartphones for location-based mobile applications

R Pérez-Torres, C Torres-Huitzil, H Galeana-Zapién - Sensors, 2016 - mdpi.com
The tracking of frequently visited places, also known as stay points, is a critical feature in
location-aware mobile applications as a way to adapt the information and services provided to …

[BOOK][B] The Chicano studies reader: An anthology of Aztlán, 1970-2000

…, ER Avila, KM Davalos, C Sandoval, R Pérez-Torres - 2001 - academia.edu
… Avila Karen Mary Davalos Chela Sandoval Rafael Perez-TorresRafael Perez-Torres
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Between Presence and Absence: Beloved, Postmodernism, and Blackness

R Perez-Torres - Toni Morrison's, 1999 - books.google.com
ENRY Hdilemma LOUIS GATES, JR., has famously discussed a central dilemma of black
literature: its presence marks as well an absence because" black" has in Western European …