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Title The Routledge companion to Latino/a literature / edited by Suzanne Bost and Frances R. Aparicio
Published London ; New York : Routledge, 2013

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 565 pages)
Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. I Identities 11 -- 1. Latinidad / Marta Caminero-Santangelo -- 2. Mestizaje / Rafael Perez-Torres -- 3. Afro-Latino/a Literature and Identity / William Luis -- 4. Urban Spaces / Raul Homero Villa -- 5. Feminisms / Patricia Marina Trujillo -- 6. Masculinities / Jennifer Domino Rudolph -- 7. Queerness / Sandra K. Soto -- 8. Illness / Suzanne Bost -- 9. Chicano/a and Latino/a Literary Studies in Mexico / Marta Del Socorro Gutierrez Magallanes -- 10. Latino/a Literature in Western Europe / Frauke Gewecke -- 11. Latino/a Literary Studies in Siberia / Elena Nakaznaya -- 12. Latina/o Literature in the Arab World / Dalia M.A. Gomaa -- pt. II Worldviews -- 13. Citizenship / Suzanne Oboler -- 14. Marxist Literary Criticism / Mathias Nilges -- 15. Neoliberalism / Kristy L. Ulibarri -- 16. Nationalism / John Alba Cutler -- 17. Transnationalism
Elizabeth Russ -- 18. Indigeneity / George Hartley -- 19. Environmentalism / Grisel Y. Acosta -- pt. III Traditions -- 20. Negotiating Language / Allison E. Pagan -- 21. Latino/a Literature and die Uses of Folklore / Marfa Eugenia Cotera -- 22. Popular Music / Frances R. Aparicio -- 23. Spirituality / Theresa Delgadillo -- 24. Culinary Encounters in Latino/a Literature / Meredith E. Abarca -- 25. Themes in Latino/a Visual Art / Constance Cortez -- pt. IV Literary Forms -- 26. Teatro / Jon D. Rossini -- 27. Poetry / Urayoan Noel -- 28. Novel / David J. Vazquez -- 29. Memoir, Autobiography, Testimonio / Norma E. Cantu -- 30. Revistas / Roberta Fernandez -- 31. Magical Realism / Frederick Luis Aldama -- 32. Chica Lit / Tace Hedrick -- 33. Science Fiction / Emily A. Maguire -- 34. Comics / Frederick Luis Aldama -- 35. Children's Literature / Mary Pat Brady -- pt. V
Canons -- 36. The Formation of a Latino/a Canon / Elena Machado Saez -- 37. Chicano/a Literature / Hector Calderon -- 38. Boricua Literature / Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez -- 39. Cuban-American Literature / Ricardo L. Ortiz -- 40. Dominican-American Literature / Silvio Torres-Saillant -- 41. South American Latino/a Writers in the United States / Juanita Heredia -- 42. Literatures of Central Americans in the United States / Ana Patricia Rodriguez -- 43. Literature of the Borderlands / Maria-Socorro Tabuenca Cordoba -- 44. Thirty Years of Chicana/Latina Lesbian Literary Production / Alicia Caspar De Alba -- 45. Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage / Jose F. Aranda, Jr. -- 46. Authors, Readers, and the Mediations of Print Culture / Kirsten Silva Gruesz -- 47. Censorship and Latino/a Texts / Laura Halperin
Summary Latino/a literature is one of the fastest developing fields in the discipline of literary studies. It represents an identity that is characterized by fluidity and diversity, often explored through divisions formed by language, race, gender, sexuality, and immigration. The Routledge Companion to Latino/a Literature presents over forty essays by leading and emerging international scholars of Latino/a literature and analyses:Regional, cultural and sexual identities in Latino/a literatureWorldviews and traditions of Latino/a cultural
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism
LITERARY CRITICISM -- American -- General.
American literature -- Hispanic American authors
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Bost, Suzanne.
Aparicio, Frances R.
ISBN 9780203097199
020309719X
9781136221613
1136221611