Contemporary U.S. Latino a Literary Criticism (American Literature Readings in the Twenty-First Century)

This is the first inter-group and gender inclusive collection of scholarship in U.S. Latino literary criticism that begins with the assumption that the literature written by U.S. Latinos is as important an object of scholarship as U.S. Latino/a history, sociology, and culture, fields that have dominated previous inter-group anthologies. Some of the most important and insightful Latino and Latin a literary scholars in the field write on authors from the four major Latino/a groups-- Cuban American, Dominican American, Mexican American, and Puerto Rican American. The anthology evaluates the state of U.S. Latino/a literary study and projects a vision of that study for the twenty-first century. This book is divided into four major areas of literary inquiry: analyses of the psychic relations between the Latino/a subject and its mimetic others; explorations of the complexities of race and Afro-Latino/a poetics; studies of the representation of labor in the Latino/a literary imagination; and genealogical and archival assessment of U.S. Latino literature’s relationship with America n , Caribbean, and Latin American literatures and histories. Cover......Page 1 Contents......Page 8 About the Contributors......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 14 Introduction: New Waves in U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism......Page 16 Part I: Desire for the Other......Page 28 1 The Latino Scapegoat: Knowledge through Death in Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates and Junot Díaz......Page 30 2 Alternative Visions and the Souvenir Collectible in Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints......Page 50 Part II: Afro-Latino/a Poetics......Page 76 3 Spirited Identities: Creole Religions, Creole/U.S. Latina Literature, and the Initiated Reader......Page 78 4 Racial Spills and Disfigured Faces in Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets and Junot Díaz's "Ysrael"......Page 108 Part III: Archives, Histories, and Genealogies......Page 128 5 The Once and Future Latino: Notes Toward a Literary History Todavía Para Llegar......Page 130 6 Hurricanes, Magic, Science, and Politics in Cristina García's The Agüero Sisters......Page 158 7 Latin Americans and Latinos: Terms of Engagement......Page 180 8 "Inheriting" Exile: Cuban-American Writers in the Diaspora......Page 198 Part IV: Ideology and Labor......Page 222 9 "So Your Social is Real?" Vernacular Theorists and Economic Transformation......Page 224 10 Oscar Hijuelos: Writer of Work......Page 242 11 Mass Production of the Heartland: Cuban American Lesbian Camp in Achy Obejas's "Wrecks"......Page 262 B......Page 292 D......Page 293 G......Page 294 K......Page 295 M......Page 296 P......Page 297 S......Page 298 Z......Page 299 This is the first compilation of essays to bring together the most important U.S. Latino/a literary criticism of the last decade. This timely text has been long in coming as U.S. Latino/a literary criticism has grown exponentially throughout U.S universities since 1995. This is the first compilation of essays to bring together the most important U.S. Latino/a literary criticism of the last decade. This timely text has been long in coming as U.S. Latino/a literary criticism has grown exponentially throughout U.S. universities since 1995 Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This is the first compilation of essays to bring together the most important U.S. Latino/a literary criticism of the last decade. This timely text has been long in coming as U.S. Latino/a literary criticism has grown exponentially throughout U.S universities since 1995. A compilation of essays that bring together the most important US Latino/a literary criticism