(Re)mapping the Latina/o literary landscape. ([2016])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Cristina Herrera, Larissa M. Mercado-López, editors.
• Editors: (Chicano studies professor), Herrera, Cristina; Mercado-López, Larissa M
• Contents: Genre matters: tracing metaphor of miscegenation in genre history, Derrida's "The law of genre" and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera / Shelley Garcia -- Harriet Beecher Stowe's Cuban characters: Uncle Tom's cabin and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab / Judie Newman -- Pedro Medina and Suburbano come to the fore: Miami as a cultural stage and source of creativity / Naida Saavedra -- The imagined world of Latin/o America in Sam no es mi tío / Amrita Das -- The twenty-first century politics of Latinidad: decolonizing consciousness, transnational solidarity, and global activism in Demetria Martínez's Mother tongue / Georgina Guzmán -- "'The Waltons, Chicana style': queer familia and reclaimed sisterhood in Terri de la Peña's Faults" / Cristina Herrera -- Crossing borders through prostitution: Esperanza's box of saints by María Amparo Escandón and Across a hundred mountains by Reyna Grande / Carolyn González -- The (im)materiality of race: the representation and circulation of brownness in the liberal media and Domingo Martinez's The boy kings of Texas / Magda García -- Capirotada: a renewed Chicana spirituality through a Chicana literary lens / Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs -- Creating a more compassionate narrative: undoing desconocimiento through embodied intimacy in Helena María Viramontes' Under the feet of Jesus and Luis Alberto Urrea's The devil's highway / Christina Garcia Lopez -- Entering the mainstream: Chicana lesbian subjectivity in contemporary drama and performance / Trevor Boffone -- Slow lightning: image, time, and an erotics of reading / Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson -- From lost woman to third space mestiza maternal subject: La Llorona as a metaphor of transformation / Larissa M. Mercado-López -- Extremely brown and incredibly ignored / Alex Espinoza -- Latino literature for children and the lack of diversity / Gabriela Baeza Ventura.
• Publisher Details: New York, NY : Palgrave Macmillan
• Publication Date: 2016
• Copyright Date: 2016
• Extent: 1 online resource (xvii, 258 pages)
• Subjects: 810.9868; American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism; LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General; American literature -- Hispanic American authors; Cultural and Media Studies; Latino Culture; Postcolonial/World Literature; Twentieth-Century Literature; Contemporary Literature; Criticism, interpretation, etc; Electronic books
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781349949014; 1349949019
• Related ISBNs: 9781349949007; 1349949000
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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