LEADER 03464nam 22006615 450 001 9910255241203321 005 20240628122434.0 010 $a9783319319216 010 $a3319319213 024 7 $a10.1007/978-3-319-31921-6 035 $a(CKB)3710000000866398 035 $a(DE-He213)978-3-319-31921-6 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4694146 035 $a(Perlego)3490796 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000000866398 100 $a20160915d2016 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#008mamaa 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture $eEngaging Blackness /$fby Jill Toliver Richardson 205 $a1st ed. 2016. 210 1$aCham :$cSpringer International Publishing :$cImprint: Palgrave Macmillan,$d2016. 215 $a1 online resource (X, 170 p.) 225 1 $aAfro-Latin@ Diasporas,$x2945-6843 311 08$a9783319319209 311 08$a3319319205 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction -- 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. . 330 $aThis book examines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s. The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights the writers' aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging. Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery. . 410 0$aAfro-Latin@ Diasporas,$x2945-6843 606 $aEthnology$zLatin America 606 $aCulture 606 $aAfrican Americans 606 $aAmerica$xLiteratures 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y20th century 606 $aLiterature, Modern$y21st century 606 $aLatino Culture 606 $aAfrican American Culture 606 $aNorth American Literature 606 $aContemporary Literature 615 0$aEthnology 615 0$aCulture. 615 0$aAfrican Americans. 615 0$aAmerica$xLiteratures. 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 0$aLiterature, Modern 615 14$aLatino Culture. 615 24$aAfrican American Culture. 615 24$aNorth American Literature. 615 24$aContemporary Literature. 676 $a306.08968 700 $aRichardson$b Jill Toliver$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01060777 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910255241203321 996 $aThe Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture$92515582 997 $aUNINA