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Record Nr.

UNINA9910255241203321

Autore

Richardson Jill Toliver

Titolo

The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture : Engaging Blackness / / by Jill Toliver Richardson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cham : , : Springer International Publishing : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2016

ISBN

9783319319216

3319319213

Edizione

[1st ed. 2016.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (X, 170 p.)

Collana

Afro-Latin@ Diasporas, , 2945-6843

Disciplina

306.08968

Soggetti

Ethnology - Latin America

Culture

African Americans

America - Literatures

Literature, Modern - 20th century

Literature, Modern - 21st century

Latino Culture

African American Culture

North American Literature

Contemporary Literature

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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. .

Sommario/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. .