Contemporary U.S. Latinx literature in Spanish : straddling identities / Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez, Michele Shaul, editors.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Das, Amrita, (Professor of Spanish), editor.

Quinn-Sánchez, Kathryn, editor.

Shaul, Michele, editor.

Series:

Literatures of the Americas

Palgrave pivot

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American literature (Spanish)--United States--History and criticism.

Hispanic American literature (Spanish).

Spanish literature.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

x, 135 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cham, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan, [2018]

Summary:

"U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish remains an understudied field despite its large and vibrant corpus. This is partly due to the erroneous impression that this literature is only written in English, and partly due to traditional educational programs focusing on English texts to include non-Spanish speakers and non-Latinx students. This has created a vacuum in research about Latinx literary production in Spanish, leaving the contemporary field wide open for exploration. This volume fills this space by bringing contemporary U.S. Latinx literature in Spanish to the forefront of the field. The essays focus on literary production post-1960 and examine texts by authors from different backgrounds writing from the U.S., providing readers with an opportunity to explore new texts in Spanish within U.S. Latinx literature, and a departure point for starting a meaningful critical discourse about what it means to write and publish in Spanish in the U.S. Through exploring literary production in a language that is both emotionally and politically charged for authors, the academia, and the U.S., this book challenges and enhances our understanding of the term 'Americas'"--Back cover.

Contents:

U.S. Latinx literature in Spanish: claiming its rightful place / Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez and Michele Shaul

Rethinking the lens of Spanish: grounding a Chicana feminist language / Elena Avilés

Self-representation and the dual reality of identity in the Spanish-language poetry of Javier O. Huerta / Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara

Two narratives of memories between borders: the flourishing of a transnational identity / Cynthia Meléndez

Untangling literary knots: writing, memory, and identity in Sonia Rivera-Valdés' Rosas de abolengo (2011) / María Celina Bortolotto

When whiteness means imagining blackness and signifying socio-cultural difference in Rosario Ferré's "Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres" / JM. Persánch

The rise of Latino Americanism: deterritorialization and postnational imagination in new Latino American writers / Francisco Laguna-Correa

Conclusion: continuing the dialogue / Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez and Michele Shaud.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Electronic version: Contemporary U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish: Straddling Identities.

ISBN:

3030025977

9783030025977

OCLC:

1052870036