Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latina/o writers. The extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latina/o and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category--Latina/o--under which we group this literature. Latina/o Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question "What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latina/o?" From...
Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latina/o writers. The extant criticism, ...
Latina/o Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus ofliterature as Latina/o. It proposesthat an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand thisliterature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand theliterature we have heretofore labeled Latina/o.
Latina/o Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus ofliterature as Latina/o. It proposesthat an ethnic marker may not be a salu...
