Recovering the U.s. Hispanic Literary Heritage

Klappentext Fifteen years of archival and critical work have been conducted under the auspices of the Recovering the U.S. Hispanic Literary Heritage Project at the University of Houston. This ongoing and comprehensive program seeks to locate! identify! preserve! and disseminate the written culture of U.S. Latinos from the Spanish Colonial Period to contemporary times. In the sixth volume of the series! the authors explore key issues and challenges in this project! such as the issues of "place" or region in Hispanic intellectual production! nationalism and transnationalism! race and ethnicity! as well as methodological approaches to recovering the documentary heritage. Included are essays on religious writing! the construction of identity and nation! translation and the movement of books across borders! and women writers and revolutionary struggle.

Product details

• Authors: Antonia I. (EDT)/ Melendez Castaneda
• Assisted by: Antonia Castaneda (Editor), A. Gabriel Melendez (Editor)
• Publisher: Arte publico press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 24.11.2006
• EAN: 9781558854789
• ISBN: 978-1-55885-478-9
• No. of pages: 217
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 222 mm x 19 mm
• Series: Recovering the U.S. Hispanic L
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies