Imagined Transnationalism: U.S. Latino a Literature, Culture, and Identity

✍ Scribed by Kevin Concannon, Francisco A. Lomelí, Marc Priewe

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 273
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

With its focus on Latino and Latina communities in the United States, this book investigates narrative and aesthetic strategies that are employed to represent transnational experiences in literary and cultural texts. Specifically concerned with how real and imagined movements between Latin American countries and the U.S. generate diverse conceptualizations of nationalism and transnationalism, this collection explores notions of identity, citizenship, and belonging in the past, present, and future.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover......Page 1
Contents......Page 4
Figures and Tables......Page 6
Introduction......Page 8
1 Chicano Transnation......Page 20
2 A Schematic Approach to Understanding Latino Transnational Literary Texts......Page 36
3 Para Español Oprima El Número Dos: Transnational Translation and U.S. Latino/a Literature......Page 54
4 Transnational Migrations and Political Mobilizations: The Case of A Day without a Mexican......Page 68
5 Imagining Transnational Chicano/a Activism against Gender-Based Violence at the U.S.-Mexican Border......Page 82
6 Precursors of Hemispheric Writing: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Early U.S. American Identity......Page 102
7 Slammin’ in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe......Page 124
8 “A Broader and Wiser Revolution”: Refiguring Chicano Nationalist Politics in Latin American Consciousness in Post-Movement Literature......Page 144
9 With Bertolt Brecht and the Aztecs Toward an Imagined Transnation: A Literary Case Study......Page 164
10 Travel, Autoethnography, and Oppositional Consciousness in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Mayan Drifter......Page 178
11 ¿Dónde estás vos/z?: Performing Salvadoreñidades in Washington, DC......Page 208
12 The Final Frontier: Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s The Great......Page 228
13 Writing the Haitian Diaspora: The Transnational Contexts of Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker......Page 244
Notes on Contributors......Page 264
B......Page 268
F......Page 269
K......Page 270
N......Page 271
S......Page 272
Z......Page 273