Sharina Maíllo-Pozo

Bridging Sonic Borders

Popular Music in Contemporary Dominican/Dominicanyork Literature

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

How music depicted in literature shapes Dominican and Dominican New Yorkers' identities and links the homeland to the diaspora.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Texas Press
• Seitenzahl: 224
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. Mai 2025
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 454g
• ISBN-13: 9781477331545
• ISBN-10: 1477331549
• Artikelnr.: 71808210

Autorenporträt

Sharina Maíllo-Pozo is an assistant professor of Latinx studies in the Department of Romance Languages at the University of Georgia. She is the coeditor of Embodiment and Representations of Beauty.

Inhaltsangabe

* Introduction. Bridging Sonic Literary Borders between the Dominican
Republic and New York City
* Chapter 1. Merengue Makes It to los Países--with a Twist
* Chapter 2. From Santo Domingo to New York City: The Sonic Tales of
Luis "Terror" Días and Other "Pendejos Anónimos"
* Chapter 3. Reframing Afro-Latina Narratives of Girlhood and
Womanhood: Bridging the Borders between Fiction, Nonfiction, and
Hip-Hop
* Chapter 4. Storytelling from the Borderlands: The Journeys of a
Dominicanyork Writer and Performer
* Epilogue
* Acknowledgments
* Notes
* Bibliography
* Index