Buenas noches, American culture : Latina/o aesthetics of night / Maria DeGuzman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

DeGuzmán, María.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Night in literature.

Central American literature--History and criticism.

Central American literature.

Latin American literature--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

Night in art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Often treated like night itself-both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized-Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels, short stories, poetry, essays, non-fiction, photo-fictions, photography, and film, and examines these texts through the lenses of nationhood, sexuality, human

Contents:

Introduction: Critically inhabiting the night

Dreaded non-identities of night: night and shadows in Chicana/o cultural production

Queer "tropics" of night and the caribe of "American" (post) modernism

Postcolonial pre-columbian cosmologies of night in contemporary U.S.-based Central American texts

Transcultural night work of U.S.-based South American cultural producers

Conclusion: Two homelands have I: "America" and the night.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786613673404

9781280696442

1280696443

9780253001900

0253001900

OCLC:

796384110