Walk the barrio : the streets of twenty-first-century transnational Latinx literature / Cristina Rodriguez.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Rodriguez, Cristina, 1982- author.

Series:

Cultural frames, framing culture.

Cultural frames, framing culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

American literature--Hispanic American authors.

American literature.

American literature--21st century--History and criticism.

Place (Philosophy) in literature.

United States.

Genre:

Critiques litteraires.

Literary criticism.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (315 pages).

Place of Publication:

Charlottesville ; London : University of Virginia Press, [2022]

Summary:

"The first- and second-generation Latinx authors discussed in Walk the Barrio use their US hometowns as both setting and stylistic inspiration, utilizing various formal techniques to mirror their literary location to the real one. The book presents a "barriography" for each work, which includes first-person reportage, archival research, human geography, relevant theories of space, and interviews with the author, neighbors, or local historians. Authors considered include Helena María Viramontes, Salvador Plascencia, Hector Tobar, William Archila, Junot Díaz, Angie Cruz, and Richard Blanco"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Introduction: My hometown, Silver Spring, and the method of Walk the barrio

West: Mexican American East Los Angeles. Californios to Californians: a brief history of Mexican American Los Angeles

"A world built on cement": the El Monte aesthetic in Salvador Plascencia's The people of paper

"Earthquakes or earthmovers": the East L.A. Barrio and Helena María Viramontes's Their dogs came with them

West: Central American Downtown Los Angeles. Displacement by and as war: Central American L.A. immigration, 1980-2010

"Los Angeles was the problem": the war for space in Hector Tobar's The tattooed soldier

"The blackouts of a tiny country": the art of William Archila's Salvadoran exile

East: Dominican New York City. "The one from the other life": the particularities of Dominican transnationalism

"No promises can survive that sea": diasporic identity in Junot Díaz's This is how you lose her

"Washington Heights is like a prison sentence": female surveillance in Angie Cruz's Soledad

South: Cuban Miami. "Brown sugar histories": Cuba and the United States in the twentieth century

"Why don't I got a street?": Little Havana in Richard Blanco's queer Cuban American Bildungsroman

Conclusion: Your hometown and other barriographies.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index.

ISBN:

9780813948072

OCLC:

1311968194