The Cambridge Companion to Latina/O American Literature

ISBN-13: 9781107622920 / Angielski / Miękka / 2016 / 304 str.

John Moran Gonzalez

Opis

This Companion presents key texts, authors, themes, and contexts of Latina/o literature and highlights its increasing significance in world literature.

Recenzje

'… the comprehensive account of the complexities of Latina/o American identity politics and dynamic literary production over a vast period of time also offers a valuable resource for students and researchers alike.' Elizabeth Anne Jacobs, Modern Language Review

Spis treści

Introduction John Morán González; Part I. Early Trans-American Contacts and Conflicts: 1. The trans-American literature of conquest and exile, 1836–85 Rodrigo Lazo; 2. The trans-American literature of conquest and revolution, 1881–1938 Laura Lomas; 3. Between ethnic Americans and racial subjects: Latina/o literature, 1936–59 John Morán González; Part II. Latina/o Literature since 1960: 4. The aesthetics of politics: cultural nationalist movements and Latina/o literature Richard T. Rodríguez; 5. The Cold War in the Americas and Latina/o literature Ricardo L. Ortíz; 6. The 1980s: Latina/o literature during the 'decade of the Hispanic' Tiffany Ana López; 7. Trans-American Latina/o literature of the 1990s: resisting neoliberalism Lucía M. Suárez; 8. From 'Latinidad' to 'Latinid@d': imagining the twenty-first century Paul Allatson; Part III. Critical Methodologies and Themes: 9. Latin@ poetics: voices Norma Elia Cantú; 10. Latino/a life writing: autobiography, memoir, testimonio Isabel Dúran; 11. Queering Latina/o literature Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes; 12. Latinos and the like: reading mixture and deracination Claudia Milian; 13. Mestizaje and cyborgism on either side of the line Thea Pitman; 14. Historias transfronterizas: contemporary Latina/o literature of migration Marta Caminero-Santangelo.