Title Cosmopolitan Strangers in US Latinx Literature and Culture Building Bridges, Not Walls

Published Milton : Taylor & Francis Group, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (191 p.) Series Narrative Theory and Culture Series Narrative Theory and Culture Series Contents Cover -- Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Figures -- Contributors -- Introduction: Latinx Strangers Revisited: From Othering to Effecting Social Change -- Encountering the Latinx Stranger -- Of Immigrants, Strangers, and Borders -- Building Bridges, Not Walls -- Notes -- References -- 1 Transforming Empathy Into Extratextual Action: The Latina Writer as Stranger and Mediator in García McCall's All the ... -- Policing the Presence of the Mexican Other -- The Cosmopolitan Stranger -- Narrative Empathy, Schema Criticism, and Social Change All the Stars Denied: Empathy, Erasures, and Extratextual Action -- Conclusions -- Note -- References -- 2 Hospitality and Borders in Oscar Cásares' Where We Come From -- Introduction -- Border Traceability: Spatial and Conceptual Doublings -- Guests, Shadows, and a Reluctant Host -- Shadows and Fuzzy Hosts -- From 'Mojadito Out Back' to 'Mijito' -- Hospitality as Engagement -- Notes -- References -- 3 Beyond the Wall: Luis Alberto Urrea's The House of Broken Angels -- National and Transnational Forces in the Borderlands -- Literature in the Trump Era: The Real Versus the Imagined The Self Seen as the Other/the Other Seen as the Self -- Otherness Versus the Cosmopolitan Stranger -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Inhabiting Nepantla: The Stranger in Contemporary Chicana Fiction -- Nepantilism and the Chthulucene -- Chicanx Border Narratives: Writing the Stranger -- Felicia Luna Lemus' Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties -- Reyna Grande's A Ballad of Love and Glory -- Notes -- References -- 5 The Cosmopolitanism of Latinx Natality in Jennine Capó Crucet's Make Your Home Among Strangers and My Time Among the ... -- Cuban-American Testimony/Latinx Autohistoria Nepantla and the Cosmopolitan Imagination -- The Aesthetics of Latinx Judgment and the Critique of Whiteness -- Latinx Natality and the Theorizing of Cuban-American Identity -- Cultural Interpellation and the Experience of Nepantla -- Testifying for Latinx Critical Thinking -- Theorizing the Latinangst in Latinx Cosmopolitanism -- Notes -- References -- 6 Strangers in the City: Cosmopolitan Strangers and Transnational Urbanism in the Literary Imagination of Valeria Luiselli -- Mexican Harlem: Strangers On the Move -- Ingrávida and Cosmopolita: A Stranger Lost in the City Strangers and Ghosts: The Ethereal Presence of the Cosmopolitan Stranger -- Zapata Boulevard: Spaces of Social Negotiation, Integration, and Acceptance -- Notes -- References -- 7 Hostipitality and Solidarity in Ivannia Villalobos Vindas' Casa En Tierra Ajena -- The Latino Threat Narrative, Anti-Latinx Sentiments, and Hostipitality -- The Criminalization of Salvadorans: Maras, Deportations, and the Third Border -- Dehumanizing Strangers: Disposability and Exclusion -- The Creation of the Great South Border: Policing Migratory Movements Notes Description based upon print version of record Hospitality Versus Hostility: Conviviality and Solidarity in Casa En Tierra Ajena Subject American literature-Hispanic American authors-History and criticism American literature-21st century-History and criticism Strangers in literature. Latin Americans in literature. Cosmopolitanism in literature. American literature -- Hispanic American authors. Cosmopolitanism in literature. Latin Americans in literature. Strangers in literature. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book Author Fernández-García, Andrea ISBN 9781000837025 1000837025

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