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(Re)mapping the Latina/o literary landscape
Abstract
This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both widely-read and understudied nineteenth through twenty-first century fictional works that engage in critical discussions of gender, race, sexuality, and identity. The essays in this collection do not simply seek inclusion for the texts they critically discuss, but suggest that we more thoughtfully consider the utility of mapping, whether we are mapping land, borders, time, migration, or connections and disconnections across time and space. Using new and rigorous methodological approaches to reading Latina/o literature, contributors reveal a varied and textured landscape, challenging us to reconsider the process and influence of literary production across borders.
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tracing metaphors of miscegenation in genre history, Derrida's "the law of genre" and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera
pp.3-20
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_1Uncle Tom's cabin and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab
pp.21-34
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_2Miami as a cultural stage and source of creativity
pp.35-52
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_3pp.53-72
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_4decolonizing consciousness, transnational solidarity, and global activism in Demetria Martínez's mother tongue
pp.73-92
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_5queer familia and reclaimed sisterhood in Terri de la Peña's faults"
pp.95-110
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_6esperanza's box of saints by María Amparo Escandón and across a hundred mountains by Reyna Grande
pp.111-126
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_7the representation and circulation of brownness in the liberal media and Domingo Martinez's the boy kings of texas
pp.127-138
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_8a renewed Chicana spirituality through a Chicana literary lens
pp.139-158
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_9undoing desconocimiento through embodied intimacy in Helena María Viramontes' Under the feet of jesus and Luis Alberto Urrea's The devil's highway
pp.161-176
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_10Chicana lesbian subjectivity in contemporary drama and performance
pp.177-190
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_11image, time, and an erotics of reading
pp.191-207
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_12La llorona as a metaphor of transformation
pp.209-226
https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4_13Publication details
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Place: Basingstoke
Year: 2016
Pages: 258
DOI: 10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4
ISBN (hardback): 978-1-349-94900-7
ISBN (digital): 978-1-349-94901-4
Full citation:
Herrera Cristina, Mercado-López Larissa M. (2016) (Re)mapping the Latina/o literary landscape. Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan.