Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States

Interviews with Contemporary Writers
Softcover Nachdruck of the original 1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-3-030-10194-7
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 238 Seiten, Previously published in hardcover, Format (B × H): 148 mm x 210 mm, Gewicht: 326 g

Reihe: Literatures of the Americas

Surveys a full scholarly and historical spectrum of South American descent authors in the U.S. Sheds light on some less well-known U.S. Latina/o writers
Includes scholarly editorial introductions alongside the interviews

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Heredia, Juanita

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

1. Introduction: Mapping South American Latinidad in the United States.- 2. The Task of the Translator: Daniel Alarcón.- 3. Bridges across Lima and Washington D.C.: Marie Arana.- 4. Dreaming in Brazilian: Kathleen De Azevedo.- 5. It Takes Two to Tango across Montevideo and California: Carolina De Robertis.- 6. Traveling the Caribbean, Colombia, and the U.S.: Patricia Engel.- 7. My Poetic Feminism between Peru and the U.S.: Carmen Giménez Smith.- 8. Gender and Spirituality in Colombia, Cuba and New Jersey: Daisy Hernández.- 9. The Colombiano of Greenwich Village: Jaime Manrique.- 10. A Meditation on Parenting from Syria to Peru to the U.S: Farid Matuk.- 11. From Dirty Wars in Argentina and Latvia to Listening to Music: Julie Sophia Paegle.- 12. Writing the Chilena NuYorker Experience: Mariana Romo-Carmona.- 13. Returning to the Fervor of Buenos Aires from the U.S.: Sergio Waisman.

Über Autor(innen)

Juanita Heredia is Professor of Spanish at Northern Arizona University, USA. She is the author of Transnational Latina Narratives in the Twenty-first Century: The Politics of Gender, Race and Migrations (2009) and co-editor of Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers (2000). While she was a post-doctoral Fellow at UCLA she advanced work on her critical monograph, Transnational Latinas/os and the City: Negotiating Urban Experiences in Twenty-first Century Literature and Culture.