The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture Engaging Blackness

This book examines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s.  The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights the writers' aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging.  Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery.

Info autore

Jill Toliver Richardson is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), USA where she teaches Contemporary Urban Writers and Latina/o Literature and composition.  She was a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship and has previously published in the journals
Label Me Latina/o
and
CENTRO
.

Riassunto

This book

examines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s. 
The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
highlights the writers’ aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging.  Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Jill Toliver Richardson
• Editore: Springer, Berlin
• Contenuto: Libro
• Forma del prodotto: Copertina rigida
• Data pubblicazione: 01.01.2016
• Categoria: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Sociologia > Altro
• EAN: 9783319319209
• ISBN: 978-3-31-931920-9
• Numero di pagine: 170
• Illustrazioni: X, 170 p.
• Dimensioni (della confezione): 15.8 x 21.7 x 1.5 cm
• Peso (della confezione): 330 g
• Serie: Springer Palgrave Macmillan; Afro-Latin@ Diasporas; Afro-Latin@ Diasporas
• Categorie: B, Cultural Studies, Contemporary Literature, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature: history & criticism, African American Culture, North America (USA and Canada), Literature, Modern—20th century, Literary studies: c 1900 to c 2000, Literature, Modern—21st century, Ethnology—Latin America, America—Literatures, North American Literature, African Americans, Literature: history and criticism, Latino Culture