The construction of Latina/o literary imaginaries : essays on alternative worldviews / by Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kabalen de Bichara, Donna M., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Hispanic Americans in literature.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (136 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.

Summary:

This book explores the cultural and historical imaginary expressed in literary works that emphasize Latina/o world views. The essays here employ critical approaches based on discourse and cultural analyses that highlight individual and collective identity. They encompass a wide spectrum of topics that deal with border newspapers published early in the twentieth century and their function as a forum for conserving memory based on cultural values and religious beliefs; life writing and fictional rewritings of memory; autobiographical texts that emphasize the diasporic experience of immigrants; and the essay and the poetic/visual literary forms that recover border memory. The discussion of alternative life views presented here will be of interest to academics involved in the recovery of print culture and genre specialists in the area of autobiography, as well as readers who wish to become more familiar with literature from the US-Mexico border region.

Contents:

Part 1. Border newspapers and the conservation of cultural memory. The Hispanic periodical and promotion of moral and cultural values: La prensa

Expressions of conflicting worldviews in religious print culture: Casa editorial revista católica and Casa bautista de publicaciones

Part 2. Memory, life writing, and fictions. Unhailed heroines

Performing autobiography and identity in The adventures of Don Chipote, or, when parrots breastfeed, by Daniel Venegas

Narrating a clandestine existence: Ramón "Tianguis" Pérez's Diary of an undocumented immigrant

Part 3. Border literature and the articulation of identity. Self and collective representation in the essays by Chicano authors Rolando Hinojosa and Sergio Troncoso

Transcendental train yard and the creation of poetic and visual texts: the construction of cultural memory and identity.

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ISBN:

1-5275-2734-4

OCLC:

1084474813