The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture

Engaging Blackness
1. Auflage 2016
ISBN: 978-3-319-31920-9
Verlag: Springer International Publishing

Buch, Englisch, 170 Seiten, Format (B × H): 153 mm x 216 mm, Gewicht: 3392 g

Reihe: Afro-Latin@ Diasporas

This bookexamines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s.  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.  Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Richardson, Jill Toliver

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literatursoziologie, Gender Studies
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literarische Strömungen & Epochen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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.         

Über Autor(innen)

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.