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Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature Jesus Montano

Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature By Jesus Montano

Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature by Jesus Montano


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Demonstrates how Latinx literature for young readers reveals the oppressions that affect the everyday lives of Latinx youth in order to destabilize the racist notions that inform them.

Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature Summary

Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature by Jesus Montano

This important study affirms that Latinx children and young adults are uniquely positioned to change the world. Using Gloria Anzaldua's theories of conocimiento as a critical lens, the authors examine several literary works including Side by Side / Lado a lado; They Call Me Guero; Land of the Cranes; Efren Divided; and Gabi, a Girl in Pieces. Using these texts and others, Montano and Postma-Montano demonstrate how Latinx literature for young readers reveals the oppressions that affect the everyday lives of Latinx youth in order to destabilize the racist notions that inform them. Whether it is injustices in the agricultural fields, weaponization of deportation and deportability, or forms of exclusion based on gender, ethnicity, and race, the books in this study counter by imagining and then participating in social-justice activism that seeks to transform the world. Ultimately the lessons shared in these books will allow Latinx young people to lead us into a future where equity and belonging are as endemic as they currently are rare.

Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature Reviews

This is a valuable and outstanding study of Latinx children's and YA literature that enables powerful understanding and appreciation for this literature, what it does, and what literature can do. - Phillip Serrato, associate professor of English and comparative literature, San Diego State University

About Jesus Montano

Jesus Montano is an associate professor of English at Hope College. His primary teaching interests include Latinx young adult literature and Latinx / Latin American literary confluences.

Regan Postma-Montano is an assistant professor of English and Spanish at Hope College. She teaches a variety of courses that focus on Latinx and Latin American literary and cultural production, children's and young adult literature, and peace and justice studies.

Table of Contents

  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter One. Reading for Conocimiento Mirrors in Farmworker Kid Lit: Roots of Transformation and Activism
  • Chapter Two. Border Kids in the Land of Nepantla
  • Chapter Three. The Cultural Wealth of Diasporic Youth
  • Chapter Four. Kids' Agency and Empowerment in an Era of Family Deportation
  • Chapter Five. The Role of the Border Artista
  • Afterword
  • Notes
  • Works Cited
  • Index

Additional information

NGR9780826366320
9780826366320
0826366325
Tactics of Hope in Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature by Jesus Montano
New
Paperback
University of New Mexico Press
2024-06-01
202
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