Contemporary U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish: Straddling Identities

✍ Scribed by Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez, Michele Shaul

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing,Palgrave Pivot
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 141
• Series: Literatures of the Americas
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish remains an understudied field despite its large and vibrant corpus. This is partly due to the erroneous impression that this literature is only written in English, and partly due to traditional educational programs focusing on English texts to include non-Spanish speakers and non-Latinx students. This has created a vacuum in research about Latinx literary production in Spanish, leaving the contemporary field wide open for exploration. This volume fills this space by bringing contemporary U.S. Latinx literature in Spanish to the forefront of the field. The essays focus on literary production post-1960 and examine texts by authors from different backgrounds writing from the U.S., providing readers with an opportunity to explore new texts in Spanish within U.S. Latinx literature, and a departure point for starting a meaningful critical discourse about what it means to write and publish in Spanish in the U.S. Through exploring literary production in a language that is both emotionally and politically charged for authors, the academia, and the U.S., this book challenges and enhances our understanding of the term ‘Americas’.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-x
U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish: Claiming Its Rightful Place (Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez, Michele Shaul)....Pages 1-16
Rethinking the Lens of Spanish: Grounding a Chicana Feminist Language (Elena Avilés)....Pages 17-33
Self-Representation and the Dual Reality of Identity in the Spanish-Language Poetry of Javier O. Huerta (Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara)....Pages 35-49
Two Narratives of Memories Between Borders: The Flourishing of a Transnational Identity (Cynthia Meléndrez)....Pages 51-72
Untangling Literary Knots: Writing, Memory, and Identity in Sonia Rivera-Valdés’ Rosas de Abolengo (2011) (María Celina Bortolotto)....Pages 73-91
When Whiteness Means Imagining Blackness and Signifying Socio-cultural Difference in Rosario Ferré’s “Cuando las mujeres quieren a los hombres” (JM. Persánch)....Pages 93-111
The Rise of Latino Americanism: Deterritorialization and Postnational Imagination in New Latino American Writers (Francisco Laguna-Correa)....Pages 113-125
Conclusion: Continuing the Dialogue (Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez, Michele Shaul)....Pages 127-130
Back Matter ....Pages 131-135

✦ Subjects

Literature; Latin American/Caribbean Literature; Comparative Literature; Language and Literature