| Description |
1 online resource (179 pages) |
| Series |
Afro-Latin@ Diasporas |
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Afro-Latin@ diasporas.
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| Contents |
Dedication ; Acknowledgments; Contents; Chapter 1: Introduction; Notes; Chapter 2: Enduring the€Curse: The€Legacy of Intergenerational Trauma in€Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of€Oscar Wao; Notes; Chapter 3: Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-ƯDominican Women's Identity in€Loida Maritza Pérez's Geographies of€Home; Notes; Chapter 4: "Boricua, Moreno": Laying Claim to€Blackness in€the€Post-Civil Rights Era; Notes; Chapter 5: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and€Space in€Angie Cruz's Soledad and€Nelly Rosario's Song€of€the€Water Saints; Notes |
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Chapter 6: Memory and€the€Afro-Cuban Missing Link in€H.G.€Carrillo's Loosing My EspanishNotes; Chapter 7: Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad; Notes; Works Cited; Index |
| Summary |
This book examines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s. The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights the writers' aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging. Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
English literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism
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English literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9783319319216 |
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3319319213 |
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