Across canons : language, Latin American immigrant literature, and the making of Latinx narratives / Thania Muñoz D.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Muñoz, Thania, 1984- Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

American literature.

Immigrants' writings, Spanish--United States--History and criticism.

Immigrants' writings, Spanish.

Latin American literature--History and criticism.

Latin American literature.

American literature--Hispanic American authors.

United States.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Tucson : University of Arizona Press, 2026.

Summary:

"Excavating narrative memories, Across Canons examines literary allusions to a classic Latin American canon that resurface in the work of Latin American writers who live and work in the United States. The immigrant literature of Edmundo Paz Soldán, Alberto Fuguet, and Cristina Rivera Garza from the late 1990s and early 2000s provides an important glimpse into representations of Latin America’s relationship with the United States and how immigration has shaped it. Author Thania Muñoz D. looks at immigrant experiences impacted by a prism of social and political factors, including free trade agreements, drug trafficking, political violence, massive foreign debt, and economic dependency. The author examines why these writers refuse to identify as immigrants and reject stereotypical portrayals. Throughout, Muñoz D. makes the case for a new field within Latinx literature: Latin American immigrant writing in Spanish. She explains why this type of literary work is critical across Latin American, Latinx, and U.S. literature. This book highlights the benefits of comparative, interdisciplinary interpretations that allow readers and scholars to grapple with the realities of a multilingual Latin American–origin literary present and future of the United States"-- JSTOR.

Contents:

Immigrants, detectives, and zombies in Edmundo Paz Soldán’s twenty-first-century U.S. narratives of disorientation and political disengagement

Missing canons : Immigration and the politics of return in Alberto Fuguet’s fiction

La patria es impecable y diamantina : How not to celebrate the nation in Cristina Rivera Garza’s transnational narratives

Epilogue : Notes on anthologies as canons and narrative memory.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Online resource; title from PDF title page (JSTOR, viewed April 24, 2026).

Other Format:

Online version: Muñoz, Thania, 1984- Across canons

ISBN:

9780816554751

0816554757

OCLC:

1581152923