Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020
Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020
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USDThis book chronicles important formal and theoretical innovations in Latinx literature during a period when Latinx writers received increasing acclaim while their communities became targets of rising hostility. The essays in this collection show how Latinx writers confront this contradiction by cultivating an understanding of Latinx experience in its transnational dimensions, by recovering histories that were suppressed or erased, by engaging in burgeoning decolonial projects that resist Western epistemologies, and by forming coalitions and solidarities within Latinx groups as well as with other minoritized racial and ethnic communities to challenge state violence and US imperial projects. The book highlights the increasingly important role of genre, form, and media in the contemporary Latinx literature and provides an account of how the shifting demographics and new migrations of Latinx people have not only resulted in new narratives and art but also altered and expanded how we imagine the category 'Latinx.'
- Provides accounts of the historical events, demographic shifts, and emergent literary cultures of the last thirty years that have shaped recent Latinx literature
- Examines key genres and media that have emerged in the last thirty years as important vehicles for Latinx storytelling and cultural expression
- Provides an account of how the shifting demographics and new migrations of Latinx people in the past thirty years have not only resulted in new narratives and art but also altered and expanded how we imagine the category 'Latinx'
Product details
July 2025Hardback
9781009314145
436 pages
229 × 152 × 24 mm
0.812kg
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Table of Contents
- List of Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction William Orchard
- Part I. Shifting Coordinates:
- 1. Periodizing the contemporary: Latinx literature and recent US history Alberto Varon
- 2. The overflows of water in Latinx literature Rebeca Hey-Colón
- 3. On Huecos and Desaparecidos: state-sanctioned violence and undocumented migration in Latinx South American literary imaginaries Jennifer Harford Vargas
- 4. Haiti in the Latinx literary imaginary John Ribó
- 5. CantoMundo, undocupoets, Letras Latinas and the cultivation of Latinx poetry Francisco E. Robles
- 6. Global wanderings: Latinx literature in translation Marion Rohrleitner
- Part II. Transforming Genres:
- 7. The trouble with solidarity: fictions of pan-ethnicity Aarón Aguilar-RamÃrez
- 8. Arendt's children in US Central American poetry Guadalupe Escobar
- 9. Launching into a brown Future: Latinx science fiction narratives Cathryn Merla-Watson
- 10. Latinx speculative fiction, speculative Latinx Maia Gil'AdÃ
- 11. US empire and Latinx children's literature Sonia Alejandra RodrÃguez
- Part III. Emerging Media:
- 12. Latinx melodrama: telenovela legacies in twenty-first century audiovisual narratives Adriana Estill
- 13. Cyberspace (s)exiles: Latin@ digital textuality for the twenty-first century Margarita Castromán Soto
- 14. Sonic Latinidades in Latinx theater and performance Marci McMahon
- 15. Comics go to school: Latinx graphic narratives and the university William Orchard
- 16. Video gaming Latinidad: Latinx representation and narrative in twenty-first century games and ludic narratives Regina Marie Mills
- Part IV. Theoretical Turns:
- 17. AfroLatina embodied archives of knowledge production Omaris Z. Zamora
- 18. Contemporary Latinx indigeneities Yolanda Padilla
- 19. Cruising Utopia and the queering of Latinx literature Ricardo OrtÃz
- 20. The formal turn in Latinx literature and criticism Thomas Conners
- Bibliography
- Index.
