The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
Cambridge University Press, 2/22/2018
EAN 9781107183087, ISBN10: 1107183081
Hardcover, 854 pages, 23.9 x 16.3 x 4.9 cm
Language: English
The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature, the essays in this History provide a critical overview of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts as discussed by leading scholars in the field. This book demonstrates the relevance of Latina/o literature for a world defined by the migration of people, commodities, and cultural expressions.
List of contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part I. Rereading the Colonial Archive
Transculturation and Conflict, 1492–1810
1. Indigenous Herencias
Creoles, mestizaje, and nations before nationalism
2. Performing to a captive audience
dramatic encounters in the borderlands of empire
3. The tricks of the weak
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the feminist temporality of Latina literature
4. Rethinking the colonial Latinx literary imaginary
a comparative and decolonial research agenda
5. The historical and imagined cultural geographies of Latinidad
Part II. The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
The Literary Emergence of a Trans-American Imaginary, 1783–1912
6. Whither Latinidad?
the trajectories of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o literature
7. Father Félix Varela and the emergence of an organized Latina/o minority in early nineteenth-century New York City
8. Transamerican New Orleans
Latino literature of the Gulf of Mexico, from the Spanish colonial period to post-Katrina
9. Trajectories of exchange
toward histories of Latino literature
10. Narratives of displacement in places that once were Mexican
11. Latina feminism, Latina racism and unspeakable violence
travel narratives, novels of reform, and histories of genocide and lynching
12. José MartÃÂ, comparative reading, and the emergence of Latino modernity in gilded-age New York
13. Afro-Latinidad
phoenix rising from a hemisphere's racist flames
Part III. Negotiating Literary Modernity
Between Colonial Subjectivity and National Citizenship, 1910–1979
14. Oratory, memoir, and theater
performances of race and class in the early twentieth-century Latina/o public sphere
15. Literary revolutions in the borderlands
transnational dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and its diaspora in the United States
16. Making it nuevo
Latina/o modernist poetics remake high Euro-American modernism
17. The archive and Afro-Latina/o field-formation
Arturo Alfonso Schomburg at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American literatures
18. Floricanto en Aztlán
Chicano cultural nationalism and its epic discontents
19. 'The geography of their complexion'
Nuyorican poetry and its legacies
20. Cuban American counterpoint
the heterogeneity of Cuban American literature, culture, and politics
21. Latina/o theater and performance in the contexts of social movements
Part IV. Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
22. Undocumented immigration in Latina/o literature
23. Latina feminist theory and writing
24. Invisible no more
US central American literature before and beyond the age of neoliberalism
25. Latina/o life narratives
crafting self-referential forms in the colonial milieu of the Americas
26. Poetics of the 'majority minority'
27. The Quisqueya diaspora
the emergence of Latina/o literature from Hispaniola
28. Listening to literature
popular music, voice, and dance in the Latina/o literary imagination, 1980–2010
29. Brazuca literature
old and new currents, countercurrents, and undercurrents
30. Staging Latinidad and interrogating neoliberalism in contemporary Latina/o performance and border art
31. Transamerican popular forms of Latina/o literature
genre fiction, graphic novels, and digital environments
32. trauma, translation, and migration in the crossfire of the Americas
the intersection of Latina/o and South American literatures
33. The Mesoamerican corridor, central American transits, and Latina/o becomings
34. Differential visions
the diasporic stranger, subalternity, and the transing of experience in US Puerto Rican literature
35. Temporal borderlands
toward decolonial queer temporality in Latina/o literature
Epilogue
Latina/o literature
the borders are burning
Chronology
Bibliography
Index.