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

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture/ by Jill Toliver Richardson.
Reminder of title:	Engaging Blackness /
Author:	Richardson, Jill Toliver.
Description:	X, 170 p.online resource. :
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Ethnology—Latin America. -
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31921-6
ISBN:	9783319319216

The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture = Engaging Blackness /
Richardson, Jill Toliver.

The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and CultureEngaging Blackness /[electronic resource] :by Jill Toliver Richardson. - 1st ed. 2016. - X, 170 p.online resource. - Afro-Latin@ Diasporas. - Afro-Latin@ Diasporas.

Introduction -- Chapter One: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Chapter Two:Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican Women’s Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home -- Chapter Three:‘Boricua, Moreno’: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints -- Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillo’s Loosing My Espanish -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad. .

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. .

ISBN: 9783319319216

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-31921-6doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

1255885
Ethnology—Latin America.

LC Class. No.: GN562-564

Dewey Class. No.: 306.08968

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