The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature

ISBN-13: 9781316514351 / Angielski / Twarda / 2022

Sarah Quesada

Opis

Interweaving the influential voices of African, Caribbean, and Latinx authors, this book challenges eurocentric notions of World Literature.

Recenzje

'Quesada's The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature transforms Paul Gilroy's notion of The Black Atlantic into an Afro-Latino Atlantic…Quesada is able to make a hopeful argument for the possibility of fiction - whether traditional print novels or heritage site oral storytelling - to helpfully respond to and potentially transform the path wrought by this real and symbolic violence.' Tom McEnaney, University of California, Berkeley

Spis treści

1. Fear: Junot Díaz's zombies and les contorsions extraordinaires in 'Monstro'; 2. Commodification: Badagry and the African safari of Achy Obejas's Ruins; 3. Obliteration: Gabriel García Márquez and his Angolan chronicles of a 'Latin-African' death foretold; 4. Archival distortion: The Chicano-Congo Relación of Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya.