Imagined Transnationalism [electronic resource] : U.S. Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity /
Concannon, K.editor.
Lomelí, F.editor.
Priewe, M.editor.
With its focus on Latina/o communities in the United States, this collection of essays identifies and investigates the salient narrative and aesthetic strategies with which an individual or a collective represents transnational experiences and identities in literary and cultural texts.
Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Cover; Contents; Figures and Tables; Introduction; 1 Chicano Transnation; 2 A Schematic Approach to Understanding Latino Transnational Literary Texts; 3 Para Español Oprima El Número Dos: Transnational Translation and U.S. Latino/a Literature; 4 Transnational Migrations and Political Mobilizations: The Case of A Day without a Mexican; 5 Imagining Transnational Chicano/a Activism against Gender-Based Violence at the U.S.-Mexican Border; 6 Precursors of Hemispheric Writing: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Early U.S. American Identity
7 Slammin' in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe8 "A Broader and Wiser Revolution": Refiguring Chicano Nationalist Politics in Latin American Consciousness in Post-Movement Literature; 9 With Bertolt Brecht and the Aztecs Toward an Imagined Transnation: A Literary Case Study; 10 Travel, Autoethnography, and Oppositional Consciousness in Juan Felipe Herrera's Mayan Drifter; 11 ¿Dónde estás vos/z?: Performing Salvadoreñidades in Washington, DC; 12 The Final Frontier: Guillermo Gómez-Peña's The Great
13 Writing the Haitian Diaspora: The Transnational Contexts of Edwidge Danticat's The Dew BreakerNotes on Contributors; Index
With its focus on Latina/o communities in the United States, this collection of essays identifies and investigates the salient narrative and aesthetic strategies with which an individual or a collective represents transnational experiences and identities in literary and cultural texts.
Arts.
Latin America-Politics and government.
Ethnology-Latin America.
Cultural studies.
Political science.
Arts.
Latin American Politics.
Latin American Culture.
Cultural Studies.
Political Science.