LEADER 03191nam 2200661Ia 450 001 9910790374203321 005 20230801223331.0 010 $a1-280-69644-3 010 $a9786613673404 010 $a0-253-00190-0 035 $a(CKB)2670000000205620 035 $a(EBL)816841 035 $a(OCoLC)796384110 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000676894 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11403769 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000676894 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10684777 035 $a(PQKB)10614260 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC816841 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse18208 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL816841 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10569648 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL367340 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000205620 100 $a20120206d2012 ub 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aBuenas noches, American culture$b[electronic resource] $eLatina/o aesthetics of night /$fMari?a DeGuzma?n 210 $aBloomington $cIndiana University Press$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (326 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-253-00189-7 311 $a0-253-00179-X 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $aIntroduction: 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. 330 $aOften 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, Mari?a DeGuzma?n 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, human 606 $aAmerican literature$xHispanic American authors$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNight in literature 606 $aCentral American literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLatin American literature$xHistory and criticism 606 $aNight in art 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHispanic American authors$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNight in literature. 615 0$aCentral American literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLatin American literature$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aNight in art. 676 $a810.9/868073 700 $aDeGuzma?n$b Mari?a$01530728 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910790374203321 996 $aBuenas noches, American culture$93777584 997 $aUNINA