Title Latino dreams : transcultural traffic and the U.S. national imaginary / Paul Allatson

Published Amsterdam ; New York, NY : Rodopi, 2002

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Description 1 online resource (367 pages) Series Portada hispánica ; 14 Portada hispánica ; 14. Contents Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The transcultural contours of Latino U.S.A. -- Chapter 2. Rosario Ferré's trans-"American" fantasy, or subalternizing the self -- Chapter 3. Abraham Rodriguez's boy-zone romance of "American" escape -- Chapter 4. Cuban memory, "American" mobility, and Achy Obejas's lesbian way -- Chapter 5. Coming out of the "American" nightmare with Benjamin Alire Sáenz -- Chapter 6. Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and "American" cannibal reveries -- 7. Afterword: Notes on transcultural traffic from across el charco pacífico -- Bibliography -- Index Summary A welcome addition to the fields of Latino and (trans-)American cultural and literary studies, Latino Dreams focuses on a selection of Latino narratives, published between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, that may be said to traffic in the U.S.A.'s attendant myths and governing cultural logics. The selection includes novels by authors who have received little academic attention-Abraham Rodriguez, Achy Obejas, and Benjamin Alire Sáenz-along with underattended texts from more renowned writers-Rosario Ferré, Coco Fusco, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Latino Dreams takes a transcultural approach in order to raise questions of subaltern subordination and domination, and the resistant capacities of cultural production. The analysis explores how the selected narratives deploy specific narrative tactics, and a range of literary and other cultural capital, in order to question and reform the U.S.A.'s imaginary coordinates. In these texts, moreover, national imperatives are complicated by recourse to feminist, queer, panethnic, postcolonial, or transnational agendas. Yet the analysis also recognizes instances in which the counter-narrative will is frustrated: the narratives may provide signs of the U.S.A.'s hegemonic resilience in the face of imaginary disavowal Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 321-347) and index Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL English Print version record digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL Subject Spanish American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- 20th century -- History and criticism Culture in literature. Nationalism in literature. POETRY -- Continental European. American literature -- Hispanic American authors Culture in literature Nationalism in literature Spanish American literature Spaanse Amerikanen. Spaans. Letterkunde. Amerikaans. Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Form Electronic book ISBN 1417564369 9781417564361

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