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Contemporary U.S. Latino/ A Literary Criticism

✍ Scribed by Lyn Di Iorio Sandín, Richard Perez PhD (eds.)

Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan US
Year
2007
Tongue
English
Leaves
290
Series
American Literature Readings in the 21st Century
Edition
1
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This is the first compilation of essays to bring together the most important U.S. Latino/a literary criticism of the last decade. This timely text has been long in coming as U.S. Latino/a literary criticism has grown exponentially throughout U.S universities since 1995.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xiv
Introduction New Waves in U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism....Pages 1-11
Front Matter....Pages 13-13
The Latino Scapegoat: Knowledge through Death in Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates and Junot Díaz....Pages 15-33
Alternative Visions and the Souvenir Collectible in Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints....Pages 35-59
Front Matter....Pages 61-61
Spirited Identities: Creole Religions, Creole/U.S. Latina Literature, and the Initiated Reader....Pages 63-92
Racial Spills and Disfigured Faces in Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Junot Díaz’s “Ysrael”....Pages 93-112
Front Matter....Pages 113-113
The Once and Future Latino: Notes Toward a Literary History todavía para llegar....Pages 115-142
Hurricanes, Magic, Science, and Politics in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters....Pages 143-164
Latin Americans and Latinos: Terms of Engagement....Pages 165-181
“Inheriting” Exile: Cuban-American Writers in the Diaspora....Pages 183-205
Front Matter....Pages 207-207
“So Your Social is Real?” Vernacular Theorists and Economic Transformation....Pages 209-226
Oscar Hijuelos: Writer of Work....Pages 227-246
Mass Production of the Heartland: Cuban American Lesbian Camp in Achy Obejas’s “Wrecks”....Pages 247-276
Back Matter....Pages 277-284

✦ Subjects

North American Literature;Poetry and Poetics;Twentieth-Century Literature

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