Imagined Transnationalism : U.S. Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity

With its focus on Latina/o communities in the United States, this collection of essays identifies and investigates the salient narrative and aesthetic strategies with which an individual or a collective represents transnational experiences and identities in literary and cultural texts. Front Matter....Pages i-v Introduction....Pages 1-12 Chicano Transnation....Pages 13-28 A Schematic Approach to Understanding Latino Transnational Literary Texts....Pages 29-45 Para Español Oprima El Número Dos: Transnational Translation and U.S. Latino/a Literature....Pages 47-60 Transnational Migrations and Political Mobilizations: The Case of A Day without a Mexican....Pages 61-73 Imagining Transnational Chicano/a Activism against Gender-Based Violence at the U.S.-Mexican Border....Pages 75-93 Precursors of Hemispheric Writing: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Early U.S. American Identity....Pages 95-115 Slammin’ in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe....Pages 117-136 “A Broader and Wiser Revolution”: Refiguring Chicano Nationalist Politics in Latin American Consciousness in Post-Movement Literature....Pages 137-155 With Bertolt Brecht and the Aztecs Toward an Imagined Transnation: A Literary Case Study....Pages 157-170 Travel, Autoethnography, and Oppositional Consciousness in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Mayan Drifter....Pages 171-199 ¿Dónde estás vos/z?: Performing Salvadoreñidades in Washington, DC....Pages 201-220 The Final Frontier: Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s The Great Mojado Invasion....Pages 221-235 Writing the Haitian Diaspora: The Transnational Contexts of Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker....Pages 237-256 Back Matter....Pages 257-266 "With its focus on Latino and Latina communities in the United States, this book investigates narrative and aesthetic strategies that are employed to represent transnational experiences in literary and cultural texts. Specifically concerned with how real and imagined movements between Latin American countries and the U.S. generate diverse conceptualizations of nationalism and transnationalism, this collection explores notions of identity, citizenship, and belonging in the past, present, and future"--Provided by publisher With its focus on Latino and Latina communities in the United States, this book investigates narrative and aesthetic strategies that are employed to represent transnational experiences in literary and cultural texts. Specifically concerned with how real and imagined movements between Latin American countries and the U.S. generate diverse conceptualizations of nationalism and transnationalism, this collection explores notions of identity, citizenship, and belonging in the past, present, and future--Résumé de l'éditeur