LEADER 04208nam 22006855 450 001 9910796808803321 005 20210715010516.0 010 $a0-8232-8144-2 010 $a0-8232-7925-1 010 $a0-8232-7941-3 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823279418 035 $a(CKB)4100000004837253 035 $a(OCoLC)1029605490 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse67742 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0001921806 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC5391783 035 $a(DE-B1597)554954 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823279418 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000004837253 100 $a20200723h20182018 fg 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aLatinx Literature Unbound $eUndoing Ethnic Expectation /$fRalph E. Rodriguez 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aNew York, NY :$cFordham University Press,$d[2018] 210 4$dİ2018 215 $a1 online resource (1 PDF (181 pages)) 300 $aThis edition previously issued in print: 2018. 311 0 $a0-8232-7923-5 311 0 $a0-8232-7924-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tIntroduction. What We Talk about When We Talk about Latinx Literature --$tChapter 1. Brown Like Me? The Author- Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies --$tChapter 2. Confounding the Mimetic: The Metafictional Challenge to Representation --$tChapter 3. From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story --$tChapter 4. The Lyric, or, a Radical Singularity in Latinx Verse --$tConclusion: Thinking beyond Limits --$tAcknowledgments --$tNotes --$tworks cited --$tIndex 330 $aSince the 1990's, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category under which we group this literature. Latinx Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question ?What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latinx?? From this question others emerge: What does Latinx allow or predispose us to see, and what does it preclude us from seeing? If the grouping?which brings together a heterogeneous collection of people under a seemingly homogeneous label?tells us something meaningful, is there a poetics we can develop that would facilitate our analysis of this literature? In answering these questions, Latinx Literature Unbound frees Latinx literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latinx for organizing and analyzing this literature. Privileging the act of reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, Ralph E. Rodriguez argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature and suggests new ways we might proceed with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as Latinx. 606 $aHispanic American authors 606 $aHispanic American literature (Spanish)$xHistory and criticism 606 $aAmerican literature$xHispanic American authors$xHistory and criticism 610 $aIdentity. 610 $aLatina/o literature. 610 $aLiterary Theory. 610 $aMetafiction. 610 $aNeo-Formalism. 610 $aNovel. 610 $aPoetry. 610 $aRace and Ethnicity. 610 $aShort Story. 610 $aTaxonomy. 615 0$aHispanic American authors. 615 0$aHispanic American literature (Spanish)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aAmerican literature$xHispanic American authors$xHistory and criticism. 676 $a860.9868073 700 $aRodriguez$b Ralph E.$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$01579669 801 0$bDE-B1597 801 1$bDE-B1597 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910796808803321 996 $aLatinx Literature Unbound$93859915 997 $aUNINA