Latinx Literature Unbound : Undoing Ethnic Expectation / Ralph E. Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodriguez, Ralph E., Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Hispanic American authors.

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

Hispanic American literature (Spanish).

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

American literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (1 PDF (181 pages))

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Since the 1990's, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category under which we group this literature. Latinx Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question “What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latinx?” From this question others emerge: What does Latinx allow or predispose us to see, and what does it preclude us from seeing? If the grouping—which brings together a heterogeneous collection of people under a seemingly homogeneous label—tells us something meaningful, is there a poetics we can develop that would facilitate our analysis of this literature? In answering these questions, Latinx Literature Unbound frees Latinx literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latinx for organizing and analyzing this literature. Privileging the act of reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, Ralph E. Rodriguez argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature and suggests new ways we might proceed with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as Latinx.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Introduction. What We Talk about When We Talk about Latinx Literature

Chapter 1. Brown Like Me? The Author- Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies

Chapter 2. Confounding the Mimetic: The Metafictional Challenge to Representation

Chapter 3. From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story

Chapter 4. The Lyric, or, a Radical Singularity in Latinx Verse

Conclusion: Thinking beyond Limits

Acknowledgments

Notes

works cited

Index

Notes:

This edition previously issued in print: 2018.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780823281442

0823281442

9780823279258

0823279251

9780823279418

0823279413

OCLC:

1029605490