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The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture : Engaging Blackness / by Jill Toliver Richardson.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Richardson, Jill Toliver, Author.
- Series:
- Afro-Latin@ Diasporas, 2945-6843
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ethnology--Latin America.
- Ethnology.
- Culture.
- African Americans.
- America--Literatures.
- America.
- Literature, Modern--20th century.
- Literature, Modern.
- Literature, Modern--21st century.
- Latino Culture.
- African American Culture.
- North American Literature.
- Contemporary Literature.
- Local Subjects:
- Latino Culture.
- African American Culture.
- North American Literature.
- Contemporary Literature.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (X, 170 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2016.
- Place of Publication:
- Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: 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:
- 9783319319216
- 3319319213
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