03191nam 2200661Ia 450 991079037420332120230801223331.01-280-69644-397866136734040-253-00190-0(CKB)2670000000205620(EBL)816841(OCoLC)796384110(SSID)ssj0000676894(PQKBManifestationID)11403769(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676894(PQKBWorkID)10684777(PQKB)10614260(MiAaPQ)EBC816841(MdBmJHUP)muse18208(Au-PeEL)EBL816841(CaPaEBR)ebr10569648(CaONFJC)MIL367340(EXLCZ)99267000000020562020120206d2012 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrBuenas noches, American culture[electronic resource] Latina/o aesthetics of night /María DeGuzmánBloomington Indiana University Pressc20121 online resource (326 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-253-00189-7 0-253-00179-X Includes bibliographical references and index.Introduction: Critically inhabiting the night -- Dreaded non-identities of night: night and shadows in Chicana/o cultural production -- Queer "tropics" of night and the caribe of "American" (post) modernism -- Postcolonial pre-columbian cosmologies of night in contemporary U.S.-based Central American texts -- Transcultural night work of U.S.-based South American cultural producers -- Conclusion: Two homelands have I: "America" and the night.Often treated like night itself-both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized-Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels, short stories, poetry, essays, non-fiction, photo-fictions, photography, and film, and examines these texts through the lenses of nationhood, sexuality, humanAmerican literatureHispanic American authorsHistory and criticismNight in literatureCentral American literatureHistory and criticismLatin American literatureHistory and criticismNight in artAmerican literatureHispanic American authorsHistory and criticism.Night in literature.Central American literatureHistory and criticism.Latin American literatureHistory and criticism.Night in art.810.9/868073DeGuzmán María1530728MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910790374203321Buenas noches, American culture3777584UNINA