Afro-Latin@ experience in contemporary American literature and culture : engaging blackness / Jill Toliver Richardson.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Richardson, Jill Toliver, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Group identity in literature.

African Americans--Race identity--In literature.

African Americans.

Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity--In literature.

Hispanic Americans.

American literature--African American authors--Themes, motives.

American literature.

American literature--Hispanic American authors--Themes, motives.

American literature--Hispanic American authors.

Themes, motives.

American literature--African American authors.

Hispanic Americans--Ethnic identity.

African Americans--Race identity.

Physical Description:

x, 170 pages ; 22 cm

Other Title:

Afro-Latino experience in contemporary American literature and culture

Afro-Latina experience in contemporary American literature and culture

Place of Publication:

[Cham] : Palgrave Macmillan, [2016]

Summary:

This book examines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s. The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights the writers' aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging. Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery. .

Contents:

Introduction

Chapter One: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Chapter Two:Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican Women's Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of Home

Chapter Three:'Boricua, Moreno': Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era

Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz's Soledad and Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints

Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillo's Loosing My Espanish

Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad. .

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

3319319205

9783319319209

OCLC:

942381083