The Latino/a canon and the emergence of post-sixties literature / by Raphael Dalleo and Elena Machado Sáez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dalleo, Raphael.

Contributor:

Machado Sáez, Elena.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.

American literature.

American literature--Hispanic American authors.

American literature--West Indian American authors--History and criticism.

American literature--20th century--History and criticism.

American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

American literature--New York (State)--New York--History and criticism.

Hispanic American authors.

Political and social views.

American literature--West Indian American authors.

New York (State)--New York.

Hispanic American authors--Political and social views.

Hispanic Americans in literature.

West Indian Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

x, 205 pages ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

In the first of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship of art, politics, and the market. Dalleo and Machado Saez engage with the major critics from the field to dispute the consensus view of Latino/a literature from the 1960s as politically committed and resistant to the market versus the literature of the 1990s as apolitical and assimilationist due to its commodification. This study argues that post-Sixties writers Pedro Pietri, Ernesto Quinones, Abraham Rodriguez, Junot Diaz, Angie Cruz, Cristina Garcia, and Julia Alvarez have not abandoned politics, but are imagining creative strategies for revitalizing progressive though through the market.

Contents:

Introduction: Sellouts? Politics and the Market in Post-Sixties Latino/a Literature 1

Chapter 1 Periodizing Latino/a Literature through Pedro Pietri's Nuyorican Cityscapes 17

Chapter 2 Mercado Dreams: The End(s) of Sixties Nostalgia in Contemporary Ghetto Fiction 45

Chapter 3 Movin' On Up and Out: Lowercase Latino/a Realism in the Work of Junot Diaz and Angie Cruz 73

Chapter 4 Latino/a Identity and Consumer Citizenship in Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban 107

Chapter 5 Writing in a Minor Key: Postcolonial and Post-Civil Rights Histories in the Novels of Julia Alvarez 133

Conclusion: New Directions: The Post-Sixties Miami Imaginary 159.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [187]-196) and index.

ISBN:

1403977968

9781403977960

OCLC:

79004688

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