03464nam 22006615 450 991025524120332120240628122434.09783319319216331931921310.1007/978-3-319-31921-6(CKB)3710000000866398(DE-He213)978-3-319-31921-6(MiAaPQ)EBC4694146(Perlego)3490796(EXLCZ)99371000000086639820160915d2016 u| 0engurnn#008mamaatxtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierThe Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture Engaging Blackness /by Jill Toliver Richardson1st ed. 2016.Cham :Springer International Publishing :Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan,2016.1 online resource (X, 170 p.)Afro-Latin@ Diasporas,2945-68439783319319209 3319319205 Includes bibliographical references and index.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. .Afro-Latin@ Diasporas,2945-6843EthnologyLatin AmericaCultureAfrican AmericansAmericaLiteraturesLiterature, Modern20th centuryLiterature, Modern21st centuryLatino CultureAfrican American CultureNorth American LiteratureContemporary LiteratureEthnologyCulture.African Americans.AmericaLiteratures.Literature, ModernLiterature, ModernLatino Culture.African American Culture.North American Literature.Contemporary Literature.306.08968Richardson Jill Toliverauthttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1060777BOOK9910255241203321The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture2515582UNINA