Ralph E. Rodriguez

Latinx Literature Unbound

Undoing Ethnic Expectation

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Produktbeschreibung

Latina/o Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus ofliterature as Latina/o. It proposesthat an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand thisliterature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand theliterature we have heretofore labeled Latina/o.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Mai 2018
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 437g
• ISBN-13: 9780823279234
• ISBN-10: 0823279235
• Artikelnr.: 50906165

Autorenporträt

Ralph E. Rodriguez is Professor of American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and English at Brown University. He is the author of Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk About Latina/o Literature
Chapter 1: Brown Like Me?: The Author Function, Proper Names, and the Rise
of Fictional Nobodies
Chapter 2: Confounding the Mimetic: The Meta-Fictional Challenge to
Representation
Chapter 3: From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in
the Short Story
Chapter 4: The Lyric, or, A Radical Singularity in Latina/o Verse
Conclusion: Thinking Beyond Limits