Invisibility and Influence - A Literary History of Afrolatinidades

A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

• Acknowledgments
• Introduction: (Life) Writing against Mestizaje
• 1. Arturo Schomburg, Pura Belpré, and the “Racial Integrity” of Auto/biography
• 2. Jesús Colón, the New York Young Lords, and “Observe and Participate” Autobiography
• 3. AfroLatinidad as Creative Destruction: Piri Thomas’s Life Writing as a Theorization of Violence
• 4. Call-and-Response AfroLatinidad: Spirituality, Race, and Gender in Marta Moreno Vega’s and Lourdes Casal’s Life Writing
• 5. Queer AfroLatinidades: Monstrosity and Reclaiming Black Latinx Girlhood in Jaquira Díaz’s Ordinary Girls and Ariana Brown’s Verse Memoirs
• Epilogue: Science, Spirituality, and Changing Notions of Ancestry in AfroLatinx Narratives
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index

Über den Autor / die Autorin

Regina Marie Mills

Zusammenfassung

A rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Regina Marie Mills
• Verlag: University Of Texas Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 01.06.2024
• EAN: 9781477329139
• ISBN: 978-1-4773-2913-9
• Seiten: 256
• Serie: Latinx: The Future is Now
• Thema: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Sprach- und Literaturwissenschaft > Englische Sprachwissenschaft / Literaturwissenschaft