Imagined transnationalism : U.S. latino/a literature, culture, and identity / edited by Kevin Concannon, Francisco A. Lomelí, and Marc Priewe.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Concannon, Kevin.

Lomelí, Francisco A.

Priewe, Marc.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic Americans--Social conditions.

Hispanic Americans.

Community development--United States.

Community development.

United States.

American literature--Hispanic American authors.

American literature.

Physical Description:

iv, 266 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2009.

Summary:

With its focus on Latino and Latina communities in the Unites States, this book investigates narrative and aesthetic strategies tat are employed to represent transnational experiences in literary and cultural texts. Specifically concerned with how real and imagined movements between Latin American countries and the United States generate diverse conceptualizations of nationalism and transnationalism, this collection explores notions of identity, citizenship, and belonging in the past, present, and future.

Contents:

1 Chicano Transnation / Bill Ashcroft 13

2 A Schematic Approach to Understanding Latino Transnational Literary Texts / Nicols̀ Kanellos 29

3 Para Espaǫl Oprima El Nm͠ero Dos: Transnational Translation and U.S. Latino/a Literature / Marta E. Sǹchez 47

4 Transnational Migrations and Political Mobilizations: The Case of A Day without a Mexican / Mara̕ Herrera-Sobek 61

5 Imagining Transnational Chicano/a Activism against Gender-Based Violence at the U.S.-Mexican Border / Claudia Sadowski-Smith 75

6 Precursors of Hemispheric Writing: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Early U.S. American Identity / Gabriele Pisarz-Ramr̕ez 95

7 Slammin' in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe / Haraid Zapf 117

8 "A Broader and Wiser Revolution": Refiguring Chicano Nationalist Politics in Latin American Consciousness in Post-Movement Literature / Tim Libretti 137

9 With Bertolt Brecht and the Aztecs Toward an Imagined Transnation: A Literary Case Study / Karin Ikas 157

10 Travel, Autoethnography, and Oppositional Consciousness in Juan Felipe Herrera's Mayan Drifter / Maria Antṇia Oliver-Rotger 171

11 ¿Dn̤de ests̀ vos/z?: Performing Salvadoreįdades in Washington, DC / Ana Patricia Rodrg̕uez 201

12 The Final Frontier: Guillermo Gm̤ez-Peą's The Great / Mojado Invasion, Catherine Leen 221

13 Writing the Haitian Diaspora: The Transnational Contexts of Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker / Ricardo L. Ortz̕ 237.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0230606326

9780230606326

OCLC:

319867975

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