Cambridge History of Latina/O American Literature (9781316872208) by Gonzlez, John Moran -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Coverpage Half title Title page Imprints page Dedication Contents Contributors Acknowledgements Chronology Introduction

Part and Chapter Descriptions

Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive

1 Indigenous Herencias

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2 Performing to a Captive Audience

A Forceful Opening Scene: The Requerimiento Dea ex Machina: The Lady in Blue Dirty Dancing and Colonial Ethnographies Performing Satire in Colonial California Works Cited

3 The Tricks of the Weak

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4 Rethinking the Colonial Latinx Literary Imaginary

Colonizing and Decolonizing the Latinx Archive Latinx Colonialities in the Historical Imagination Latinx Literature Anthologies Decolonizing Latinx Literary Imaginaries Works Cited

5 The Historical and Imagined Cultural Genealogies of Latinidad

Genealogy of the Term “Latino” The Independence, New Imperialisms, and the Invention of “Latin” America “Latin America” and Latinos/as Today Works Cited

Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature

6 Whither Latinidad?

Latinidad’s Canons The Problem of Naming “Latin” America Traveling Latinidades Of Race and Borders Latina/o Worlds Works Cited

7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City

Varela’s Life and Works Varela’s Reception in Latina/o, Latin American, and American Studies The Protestant/Catholic Debates of the 1830s and 1840s Conclusion Works Cited

8 Transamerican New Orleans 9 Trajectories of ExChange

A History of Commercial Connections Works Cited

10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican

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11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism

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12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York

Against Romanticism and Realism Modernist Form Against Monolingualism Against Pan-Americanism Against Racism Works Cited

13 Afro-Latinidad

The Dark Side of Self-Affirmation Concomitantly, the Field of Latino Studies in the Eyes of Many Has Transcended the Ethnic Contours that Previously Circumscribed It to the United States Two-Way Negrophobia Racism by Default Afro-Latinidad and Humane Solidarity Works Cited

Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity

14 Oratory, Memoir, and Theater

Emma Tenayuca and the Voice of Labor Luisa Capetillo, Lectora Voicing Poetry: Eusebia Cosme Coda: Alberto O’Farrill and Latina/o Harlem Blackface Works Cited

15 Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands

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16 Making It Nuevo

William Carlos Williams: Enter the New World Desnudo Salomón de la Selva’s Vanguard Vanguard Julia de Burgos, Ur-Nuyorican Poet Works Cited

17 The Archive and Afro-Latina/o Field-Formation

Overcoming the Dualism of Schomburg’s Two Legacies Schomburg’s 1930s Afro-Latin Correspondence with Langston Hughes Works Cited

18 Floricanto en Aztlán

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19 “The Geography of Their Complexion”

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20 Cuban American Counterpoint 21 Latina/o Theatre and Performance in the Context of Social Movements

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Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017

22 Undocumented Immigration in Latina/o Literature

Historicizing the U.S.-Mexico Border Central American Immigration of the 1980s Magical Realism, Humor, and the Picaresque Border Crossing and Collective Trauma Life Narrative and Illegal Immigration Testimony and Solidarity Directions for Future Scholarship Works Cited

23 Latina Feminist Theory and Writing

New Directions of Latina Feminist Writing in the Twenty-First Century Latina Feminism and Disability Studies Redefining Identities Works Cited

24 Invisible No More

De/constructing Foundational Fictions from the Diaspora Reimagining the Transition from Civil War to Postwar Re/making History and Memories Mixing It Up and Saying It Loud Conclusion Works Cited

25 Latina/o Life Narratives

Genre and Convention Innovation and Identity Discourses Legacies Works Cited

26 Poetics of the “Majority Minority”

Past and Current Landscape Festivals and Poetry in Spanish Topics, Themes, Trends Conclusion Works Cited

27 The Quisqueya Diaspora

A brief history of a tormented relationship Dominican Diasporic Literary Production Haitian Diasporic Literary Production The Diasporic Condition: An Equalizing Moment Works Cited

28 Listening to Literature

Mambo Choreographies from the Zenda to the Palladium Details of Latina/o Music Intonations of Maria: The Bolero That Voice!: Radical Timbres in the Latina/o Literary Imaginary Critical Latina/o Fandom Loving Pedro Infante “Aguanile”: Dissolving the Diasporic Grudge Green Music: Synesthetic Pairings of Fan Love Works Cited

29 Brazuca Literature

Brazuca Literature: Challenges and Possibilities

30 Staging Latinidad and Interrogating Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latina/o Performance and Border Art

On the (Performance of the) Exhaustion of Neoliberalism Bala perdida and Border Performance Art Neoliberal Interrogations and the Female Body in Stuff The Women of the Port: Body-Nation-Body Conclusion Works Cited

31 Trans-American Popular Forms of Latina/o Literature

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32 Trauma, Translation, and Migration in the Crossfire of the Americas

The Dictatorship in Chile and Exile The Effects of the Dirty War in Argentina and Its Diaspora History and Memory in Uruguay and Beyond Peruvian (Im)migration to the United States Colombia’s Civil and Intimate Wars Works Cited

33 The Mesoamerican Corridor, Central American Transits, and Latina/o Becomings

The Be(a)st Option Modus Vivendi: Migrants and the Mega-Slum Works Cited

34 Differential Visions

Foreign in a Domestic Sense: Transnational Consciousness of U.S. Puerto Rican Literature The Racialized Face of U.S. Puerto Rican Literature Poetry and Performance from Below: Listening to the Dead and the Revaluation of Value Engendering America: Subaltern Speech and the (Dis)Incorporation of the Puerto Rican Subject “We Wanted More”: Longing for a Queer Future in U.S. Latina/o Literature Works Cited

35 Temporal Borderlands

Straight Temporality’s Colonial Roots Anachronism, a Racializing Device The Damnés, or Condemned Anachronistic Transnormativity Trans-Validation and the Disavowal of Jotería Works Cited

Epilogue

Killing the Abuelita Destinies Manifested Beyond Taxonomies

Bibliography Index

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