Buenas noches, American culture
Subtitle: Latina/o aesthetics of night
By: María DeGuzmán
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253001795; 9780253001894; 9780253001900
Subjects: Night in art; Central American literature; Night in literature; Hispanic American authors; South American literature; History and criticism; American literature
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Critically inhabiting the night; title: Dreaded non-identities of night: night and shadows in Chicana/o cultural production; title: Queer "tropics" of night and the caribe of "American" (post) modernism; title: Postcolonial pre-columbian cosmologies of night in contemporary U.S.-based Central American texts; title: Transcultural night work of U.S.-based South American cultural producers; title: Conclusion: Two homelands have I: "America" and the night.