Latino American literature in the classroom
Subtitle: the politics of transformation
By: Delia Poey.
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Published: 2002
Place of publication: Gainesville
Language: eng
Number of pages: 125
Subjects: American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- Study and teaching.; Latin American literature -- Study and teaching -- United States.; Hispanic Americans -- Intellectual life -- Study and teaching.; Hispanic Americans in literature -- Study and teaching.; Politics and literature -- Latin America.; Politics and literature -- United States.
Description: "Delia Poey compares the risks facing teachers and interpreters of well-known Latina/o and Latin American texts with those run by the "coyote" who smuggles undocumented workers across the U.S./Mexico border: both are in danger of erasing those cultural traits that made the border crossers important.".

"Poey shows that these texts have yet to be fully mainstreamed into the curricula, and that teachers of multicultural literature inadvertently re-colonize the texts by failing to treat them "on their own terms." She goes beyond highlighting the ways a superficial understanding of Latin American literature has led to an even more superficial or problematic reception of Latina/o texts and offers solutions.

Poey not only provides teachers and critics of Latina/o literature with innovative and viable approaches to these texts but proposes new contexts for them and new ways of viewing how they have been treated in classrooms and criticism."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [109]-120) and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: Acknowledgments ix; title: Introduction 1; title: 1. Border Crossers and Coyotes 10; title: 2. Boom(ing) Fictions: Magical Realism; title: and the Reception of Latina/o Literatures 27; title: 3. Out of Bounds: Testimonio and Its Reception 42; title: 4. Spic Spanglish? The Reception of; title: Borderlands/La Frontera and Linguistic Resistance 59; title: 5. Coming of Age in the Curriculum: The House on Mango Street; title: and Bless Me, Ultima as Representative Texts 79; title: Conclusion: Coyotes in the Classroom 93; title: Notes 97; title: Bibliography 109; title: Index 121.