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(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape Cristina Herrera

(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape By Cristina Herrera

(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape by Cristina Herrera


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This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both widely-read and understudied nineteenth through twenty-first century fictional works that engage in critical discussions of gender, race, sexuality, and identity.

(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape Summary

(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape by Cristina Herrera

This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both widely-read and understudied nineteenth through twenty-first century fictional works that engage in critical discussions of gender, race, sexuality, and identity. The essays in this collection do not simply seek inclusion for the texts they critically discuss, but suggest that we more thoughtfully consider the utility of mapping, whether we are mapping land, borders, time, migration, or connections and disconnections across time and space. Using new and rigorous methodological approaches to reading Latina/o literature, contributors reveal a varied and textured landscape, challenging us to reconsider the process and influence of literary production across borders.

About Cristina Herrera

Cristina Herrera is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script and has published in Chicana/Latina Studies, Confluencia, and Journal of Caribbean Literatures.

Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at California State University, Fresno, USA. Mercado-Lopez is the co-editor of El Mundo Zurdo 3 and El Mundo Zurdo 4, and has published in Dialogo, Chicana/Latina Studies, and collections from Demeter Press.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

Part 1 Expanding Latinidades

  1. 1. Metaphors of Miscegenation: Genre Mixing in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera. Shelley Garcia
  2. 2. . Harriet Beecher Stowe's Cuban Characters: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Judie Newman
  1. Pedro Medina and Suburbano Come to the Fore: Miami as a Cultural Stage and Source of Creativity, Naida Saavedra
  2. Latin/o American Perspectives of the United States in Sam no es mi tio, Amrita Das
  3. The Twenty-first Century Politics of Latinidad: Decolonizing Consciousness, Transnational Solidarity, and Global Activism in Demetria Martinez's Mother Tongue, Georgina Guzman

Part 2 Crossing Literary Terrains

6. 6. 'The Waltons, Chicana Style': Queer Familia and Reclaimed Sisterhood in Terri de la Pena's Faults, Cristina Herrera

  1. Crossing Borders Through Prostitution: Esperanza's Box of Saints by Maria Amparo Escandon and Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande, Carolyn Gonzalez

8. 8. Twenty-first Century Literary Border Formations: Neoliberalism and Domingo Martinez's The Boy Kings of Texas, Magda Garcia

  1. Capirotada: A Renewed Chicana Spirituality through a Chicana Literary Lens, Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs

Part 3 Mapping the Body

  1. Creating a More Compassionate Narrative: Undoing Desconocimiento through Embodied Intimacy in Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus and Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway, Christina Garcia Lopez
  2. Entering the Mainstream: Chicana Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Drama and Performance, Trevor Boffone
  3. Slow Lightning: Image, Time, and An Erotics of Reading, Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
  4. From Lost Woman to Third Space Mestiza Maternal Subject: La Llorona as a Metaphor of Transformation, Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez

Part 4 Writers on Literary (In)visibility: Voicing Activism from the Margins

14. 14. Extremely Brown and Incredibly Ignored, Alex Espinoza

  1. Latino Literature for Children and the Lack of Diversity, Gabriela Baeza Ventura

    Additional information

    NLS9781349956715
    9781349956715
    1349956716
    (Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape by Cristina Herrera
    New
    Paperback
    Palgrave Macmillan
    2018-05-30
    258
    N/A
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