Contemporary U.S. Latino/a literary criticism / edited by Lyn Di Iorio Sandin and Richard Perez.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Sandín, Lyn Di Iorio, 1964-

Perez, Richard, 1969-

Series:

American literature readings in the 21st century

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--Hispanic American authors.

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

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

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

Hispanic Americans--Intellectual life.

Hispanic Americans.

Caribbean Americans in literature.

American literature--Caribbean American authors.

Physical Description:

xiv, 284 pages ; 22 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Other Title:

Contemporary US Latino/a literary criticism

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2007.

Summary:

This is the first inter-group and gender inclusive collection of scholarship in U.S. Latino literary criticism that begins with the assumption that the literature written by U.S. Latinos is as important an object of scholarship as U.S. Latino/a history, sociology, and culture, fields that have dominated previous inter-group anthologies. Some of the most important and insightful Latino and Latina literary scholars in the field write on authors from the four major Latino/a groups-Cuban American, Dominican American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican American. The anthology evaluates the state of U.S. Latino/a literary study and projects a vision of that study for the twenty-first century. This book is divided into four major areas of literary inquiry: analyses of the psychic relations between the Latino/a subject and its mimetic others; explorations of the complexities of race and Afro-Latino/a poetics; studies of the representation of labor in the Latino/a literary imagination; and genealogical and archival assessment of U.S. Latino literature's relationship with American, Caribbean, and Latin American literatures and histories.

Contents:

Introduction: New Waves in U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism / Lyn Di Iorio Sandin, Richard Perez 1

Part I Desire for the Other

1 The Latino Scapegoat: Knowledge through Death in Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates and Junot Diaz / Lyn Di Iorio Sandin 15

2 Alternative Visions and the Souvenir Collectible in Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints / Victoria A. Chevalier 35

Part II Afro-Latino/a Poetics

3 Spirited Identities: Creole Religions, Creole/U.S. Latina Literature, and the Initiated Reader / Margarite Fernandez Olmos 63

4 Racial Spills and Disfigured Faces in Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets and Junot Diaz's "Ysrael" / Richard Perez 93

Part III Archives, Histories, and Genealogies

5 The Once and Future Latino: Notes Toward a Literary History Todavia Para Llegar / Kirsten Silva Gruesz 115

6 Hurricanes, Magic, Science, and Politics in Cristina Garcia's The Aguero Sisters / William Luis 143

7 Latin Americans and Latinos: Terms of Engagement / Roman de la Campa 165

8 "Inheriting" Exile: Cuban-American Writers in the Diaspora / Andrea O'Reilly Herrera 183

Part IV Ideology and Labor

9 "So Your Social is Real?" Vernacular Theorists and Economic Transformation / Mary Pat Brady 209

10 Oscar Hijuelos: Writer of Work / Rodrigo Lazo 227

11 Mass Production of the Heartland: Cuban American Lesbian Camp in Achy Obejas's "Wrecks" / Maria DeGuzman 247.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1403979995

9781403979995

OCLC:

81942271

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