Permissible narratives : the promise of Latino/a literature / Christopher González.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

González, Christopher, author.

Series:

Cognitive approaches to culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

American literature--Hispanic American authors.

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

American literature--Mexican American authors.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

xii, 194 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2017]

Summary:

In his groundbreaking new study, Permissible Narratives: The Promise of Latino/a Literature, Christopher Gonzalez examines the difficulties Latina/o writers face in writing beyond the narrow expectations of U.S. readership in the stories they tell Gonzalez argues that a constrained conception of the possibilities of storytelling by and about Latinos diminishes the development and progression of narrative form. Through an examination of Latino/o writers against the a priori made of engaging with nonethnic literature in the United States, Gonzalez explores the limitations and challenges Latina/o authors have confronted via the shaping power of their narratives to reach a sustainable audience. Bringing together cultural critique, memory, narratology, cognition, and comprehension, González examines Latina/o authors-such as Oscar "Zeta" Acosta, Gloria Anzaldua, Piri Thomas, Giannina Braschi, Gilbert Hernandez, Sandra Cisneros, and Junot Díaz-investigating how they successfully, and sometimes unsuccessfully, use the expansive canvas of narrative form to capture the imaginations of an open-minded readership. Permissible Narratives highlights both the inequitable accessibility of narrative devices and, crucially, the daring of Latina/o authors to nurture a readership to afford the same literary deference to them that is so often afforded to white, male, straight authors. Book jacket.

Contents:

Brown buffalos and New Mestizas: consciousness and readership in Chicano/a literature

Translingual minds, narrative encounters: reading challenges in Piri Thomas's Down these mean streets and Giannina Braschi's Yo-yo boing!

In graphic detail: challenges of memory and serialization in the storyworlds of Gilbert Hernandez

Paratextual play: intertextual interventions in Sandra Cisneros's Caramelo and Junot Díaz's The Brief wondrous life of Oscar Wao

Conclusion: The narrative possibilities of Latino/a literature.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 183-189) and index.

ISBN:

9780814213506

0814213502

9780814254417

0814254411

OCLC:

975447664