Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture

Engaging Blackness

AvJill Toliver Richardson

Inbunden, Engelska, 2016

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The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights the writers’ aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2016-09-28
Mått:148 x 210 x 16 mm
Vikt:368 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Afro-Latin@ Diasporas
Antal sidor:170
Upplaga:16001
Förlag:Springer International Publishing AG
ISBN:9783319319209

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Litteraturvetenskap inom Skönlitteratur
Etnicitet inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Jill Toliver Richardson is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), USA where she teaches Contemporary Urban Writers and Latina/o Literature and composition. She was a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship and has previously published in the journals Label Me Latina/o and CENTRO.

Innehållsförteckning

Introduction.- Chapter One: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.- Chapter Two:Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican Women’s Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home.- Chapter Three:‘Boricua, Moreno’: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era.- Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints.- Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillo’s Loosing My Espanish.- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad.