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Dominicana

Autor: Angie Cruz

Número de Páginas: 314

Una extraordinaria novela de iniciación sobre una mujer joven que encuentra su voz en el mundo ahora en una edición en Español. / An extraordinary coming-of-age story of a young woman finding her voice in the world, now in a Spanish language edition. El último día de 1964, la quinceañera Ana Canción se casa con Juan Ruiz, un hombre veinte años mayor que ella, en el campo dominicano. Al día siguiente se vuelve Ana Ruiz, una esposa confinada a un apartamento de un cuarto en Washington Heights. Juan la engaña, abusa y controla, hasta le prohíbe aprender inglés. Después de un intento fallido de fuga, Ana se entera de que está embarazada. Su madre y su esposo comparan su embarazo a ganar la lotería, su niña tendrá ciudadanía estadounidense. Juan vuelve a la República Dominicana cuando la guerra civil comienza, dejando a César, su hermano, cuidando a Ana. Durante ese descanso del confinamiento ella se enamora genuinamente, lo cual despierta su voluntad de pelear por independizarse de su abusador y por su derecho de permanecer en su patria adoptiva. Un retrato atemporal de feminidad y ciudadanía, que sigue vigente en esta época de migración forzada. On the last day ...

Soledad

Autor: Angie Cruz

Número de Páginas: 243

'Nobody's ever really given us such a revealing look at New York's Dominican population before . . . Cruz, in this determinedly real yet often magical novel, offers canny insights into family life' LA Times At eighteen, Soledad couldn't get away fast enough from her contentious family with their endless tragedies and petty fights. Two years later, she's an art student at Cooper Union with a gallery job and a hip East Village walk-up. But when Tía Gorda calls with the news that Soledad's mother has lapsed into an emotional coma, she insists that Soledad's return is the only cure. Fighting the memories of open hydrants, leering men, and slick-skinned teen girls with raunchy mouths and snapping gum, Soledad moves home to West 164th Street. As she tries to tame her cousin Flaca's raucous behaviour and to resist falling for Richie - a soulful, intense man from the neighbourhood - she also faces the greatest challenge of her life: confronting the ghosts from her mother's past and salvaging their damaged relationship. Evocative and wise, Soledad is a wondrous story of culture and chaos, family and integrity, myth and mysticism, from a Latina literary light.

A Companion to US Latino Literatures

Autor: Carlota Caulfield , Darién J. Davis

Número de Páginas: 246

A panorama of literature by Latinos, whether born or resident in the United States.

Angélica y la güira (Angélica and la Güira Spanish Edition)

Autor: Angie Cruz

Número de Páginas: 25

Una niña aprovecha el poder de la música para acortar la distancia entre la República Dominicana y Washington Heights. Este es un debut inolvidable en el género infantil de Angie Cruz, ganadora de múltiples premios y autora de la exitosa novela Dominicana. Angélica ha pasado todo el verano en la República Dominicana con sus tías y primas, sus abuelos y con la cotorra de al lado. Pronto, tendrá que despedirse. El final del verano significa regresar a casa para volver a la escuela en la otra orilla. Antes de irse, su abuelo le da el regalo perfecto, algo con el poder de atraer multitudes y mover a la gente tan rápido como las alas de un picaflor: una güira. Angélica se enamora de esta lata sin fondo y peine de hojalata que mantiene el ritmo, aunque al principio nadie parece compartir su entusiasmo. “¿Qué es ese sonido?” dicen. “¿Centavos dentro de una lata?”. Pero un día soleado y caluroso en la tierra de Washington Heights, donde la mujer del frío-frío raspa hielo para una larga fila de clientes y los hombres de la esquina estrellan fichas de dominó en una improvisada mesa de cartón, Angélica les muestra a sus vecinos el poder de la güira. ¡Angélica...

La littérature caribéenne sous l'angle du rapport esthétique/éthique

Autor: Collectif

Número de Páginas: 242

Cet ouvrage propose de penser la littérature caribéenne au-delà de la seule question du postcolonial qui tend à limiter sa portée en la confinant trop souvent dans l’historique et le sociologique. En effet, ancrée dans la vie sociale, la littérature a partie liée avec notre vie quotidienne et, de ce fait, sans être pour autant le reflet du réel, est le miroir de l’existence humaine. L’interrogation porte non pas sur ce à quoi sert la littérature caribéenne ni ce qu’elle est, mais ce qu’elle fait. Il ne s’agit donc nullement d’établir des valeurs morales ou des comportements à suivre, mais de saisir les options, les perspectives et les champs de possibles proposés par la littérature caribéenne. En liant littérarité, textualité et humanisme, des spécialistes de divers horizons questionnent la manière dont le cognitif et le sensible travaillent ensemble, examinent les modalités des valeurs dans l’œuvre et la fonction de l’oeuvre pour le monde.

Cómo no ahogarse en un vaso de agua

Autor: Angie Cruz

Número de Páginas: 207

From the beloved author of Dominicana, a GMA Book Club Pick and Women’s Prize Finalist, this is the Spanish language edition of an electrifying and indelible novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story. “Will have you laughing line after line...Cruz aims for the heart, and fires.” —Los Angeles Times "An endearing portrait of a fierce, funny woman." —The Washington Post Cara Romero creía que trabajaría en una fábrica de lámparas pequeñas por el resto de su vida. Pero cuando, a los cincuenta años, pierde su trabajo en la Gran Recesión, se ve obligada a volver al mercado laboral por la primera vez en décadas. Con el apoyo de un consejero laboral, en vez, Cara comienza a narrar la historia de su vida. En el transcurso de doce sesiones, Cara recuenta sus amoríos tempestuosos, sus relaciones por turnos hirientes y amorosas con su vecina Lulu y su hermana Ángela, sus luchas contra las deudas, la gentrificación y las perdidas, y, eventualmente, lo que realmente sucedió entre ella y su hijo distanciado, Fernando. A medida que Cara enfrenta sus secretos más oscuros y sus arrepentimientos, vemos a una mujer golpeada por la vida, ...

Angélica and la Güira

Autor: Angie Cruz

Número de Páginas: 25

A young girl harnesses the power of music to bridge the distance between the Dominican Republic and Washington Heights in this jubilant picture book debut by Angie Cruz, bestselling and award-winning author of Dominicana. Angélica has spent the summer in the Dominican Republic with her tías and primas, her grandparents, and their parrot, but soon she’ll have to say goodbye. The end of summer means returning home to start school on another shore. Before she leaves, her grandfather gives her the perfect gift. It's something with the power to make people dance as fast as the wings of a hummingbird: a güira. Angélica falls in love with this musical instrument, though nobody shares her enthusiasm at first. “What is that sound,” they say, “pennies inside a tin cup?” But on a hot, sunny day, in the land of Washington Heights, where the frío frío woman scrapes ice for a long line of customers and the men on the corner plunk dominoes on a makeshift carboard table, Angélica shows her neighbors the power of la güira. Angélica and la Güira lovingly explores music and community, the wisdom and guidance of our elders, and the joy and freedom of dancing in the street. No...

La herencia de Calíope: la feminidad señalada

Autor: Fernando Candón Ríos , Leticia De La Paz De Dios , Nuria Torres López

Número de Páginas: 478

The Latinx Urban Condition

Autor: Crescencio Lopez-gonzalez

Número de Páginas: 181

The Latinx Urban Condition brings together interdisciplinary cultural theory and U.S. Latinx urban literature into conversation, focusing on the realities and urban experiences of Latinx living in major cities in the United States from the 1960s to the present. The manuscript focuses on analyzing the works of Latinx authors who write about the city in which they were raised and how growing up in these environments shaped their lives, their communities, and their future. Their fictional work helps us understand how the human and cultural tapestry of the Latinx community is inextricably connected to the spatial transformations taking place in many cities across the country, most notably within the cities the authors write about in their narratives. This is particularly true when the city is represented through a fictional narrative, which is full of detailed information about the realities of structural inequality in education, residential segregation, urban cultural identity, discrimination, experiences of exile, oppression, urban desires, integration, and disillusionment. The main purpose is to analyze the symbolic realities lived by the characters in order to understand how...

Dreams of Archives Unfolded

Autor: Jocelyn Fenton Stitt

Número de Páginas: 219

The first book on pan-Caribbean life writing, Dreams of Archives Unfolded reveals the innovative formal practices used to write about historical absences within contemporary personal narratives. Although the premier genres of writing postcoloniality in the Caribbean have been understood to be fiction and poetry, established figures such as Erna Brodber, Maryse Condé, Lorna Goodison, Edwidge Danticat, Saidiya Hartmann, Ruth Behar, and Dionne Brand and emerging writers such as Yvonne Shorter Brown, and Gaiutra Bahadur use life writing to question the relationship between the past and the present. Stitt theorizes that the remarkable flowering of life writing by Caribbean women since 2000 is not an imitation of the “memoir boom” in North America and Europe; instead, it marks a different use of the genre born out of encountering gendered absences in archives and ancestral memory that cannot be filled with more research. Dreams of Archives makes a significant contribution to studies of Caribbean literature by demonstrating that women’s autobiographical narratives published in the past twenty years are feminist epistemological projects that rework Caribbean studies’ longstanding ...

Let It Rain Coffee

Autor: Angie Cruz

Número de Páginas: 306

With her first novel, Angie Cruz established herself as a dazzling new voice in Latin-American fiction. Junot Diaz called her "a revelation" and The Boston Globe compared her writing to that of Gabriel García Márquez. Now, with humor, passion, and intensity, she reveals the proud members of the Colón family and the dreams, love, and heartbreak that bind them to their past and the future. Esperanza did not risk her life fleeing the Dominican Republic to live in a tenement in Washington Heights. No, she left for the glittering dream she saw on television: JR, Bobby Ewing, and the crystal chandeliers of Dallas. But years later, she is still stuck in a cramped apartment with her husband, Santo, and their two children, Bobby and Dallas. She works as a home aide and, at night, stuffs unopened bills from the credit card company in her lingerie drawer where Santo won't find them when he returns from driving his livery cab. Despite their best efforts, they cannot seem to change their present circumstances. But when Santo's mother dies, back in Los Llanos, and his father, Don Chan, comes to Nueva York to live out his twilight years in the Colóns' small apartment, nothing will ever be...

The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture

Autor: Jill Toliver Richardson

Número de Páginas: 177

This 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.

Walk the Barrio

Autor: Cristina Rodriguez

Número de Páginas: 388

Immigrant communities evince particular and deep relationship to place. Building on this self-evident premise, Walk the Barrio adds the less obvious claim that to write about place you must experience place. Thus, in this book about immigrants, writing, and place, Cristina Rodriguez walks neighborhood streets, talks to immigrants, interviews authors, and puts herself physically in the spaces that she seeks to understand. The word barrio first entered the English lexicon in 1833 and has since become a commonplace not only of American speech but of our literary imagination. Indeed, what draws Rodriguez to the barrios of Los Angeles, New York, Miami, and others is the work of literature that was fueled and inspired by those neighborhoods. Walk the Barrio explores the ways in which authors William Archila, Richard Blanco, Angie Cruz, Junot Díaz, Salvador Plascencia, Héctor Tobar, and Helena María Viramontes use their U.S. hometowns as both setting and stylistic inspiration. Asking how these writers innovate upon or break the rules of genre to render in words an embodied experience of the barrio, Rodriguez considers, for example, how the spatial map of New Brunswick impacts the...

How Not to Drown in a Glass of Water

Autor: Angie Cruz

Número de Páginas: 160

A NEW YORK TIMES EDITOR'S CHOICE · A NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW NOTABLE BOOK · REVIEWED ON THE FRONT COVER From GMA BOOK CLUB PICK and WOMEN'S PRIZE FINALIST Angie Cruz, author of Dominicana, an electrifying new novel about a woman who has lost everything but the chance to finally tell her story “Will have you LAUGHING line after line...Cruz AIMS FOR THE HEART, and fires.” —Los Angeles Times "An endearing portrait of a FIERCE, FUNNY woman." —The Washington Post Cara Romero thought she would work at the factory of little lamps for the rest of her life. But when, in her mid-50s, she loses her job in the Great Recession, she is forced back into the job market for the first time in decades. Set up with a job counselor, Cara instead begins to narrate the story of her life. Over the course of twelve sessions, Cara recounts her tempestuous love affairs, her alternately biting and loving relationships with her neighbor Lulu and her sister Angela, her struggles with debt, gentrification and loss, and, eventually, what really happened between her and her estranged son, Fernando. As Cara confronts her darkest secrets and regrets, we see a woman buffeted by life but still full of...

Transnational Latina Narratives in the Twenty-first Century

Autor: Juanita Heredia

Número de Páginas: 183

Transnational Latina Narratives is the first critical study of its kind to examine twenty-first-century Latina narratives by female authors of diverse Latin American heritages based in the U.S. Heredia s comparative perspective on gender, race and migrations between Latin America and the U.S. demonstrates the changing national landscape that needs to accommodate an ever-growing Latino/a presence. This book draws on the work of Denise Chávez, Sandra Cisneros, Marta Moreno Vega, Angie Cruz, and Marie Arana, as well as a diverse blend of popular culture. Heredia s thought-provoking insights seek to empower the representation of women who are transnational ambassadors in modern trans-American literature.

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean

Autor: Elena Igartuburu García

Número de Páginas: 120

Affect, Performativity, and Chinese Diasporas in the Caribbean: Hopeful Futures analyzes the emergence of Chinese diasporic literature and art in the Caribbean and its diasporas in the twenty-first century. This book considers the historical and critical discourse about the Chinese diasporas in the Caribbean and proposes a textual and visual archive selecting contemporary texts that signal a changing paradigm in postcolonial literature at the turn of the twenty-first century. Whereas, historically, Chinese minorities had been erased or presented as ultimate Others, contemporary texts mobilize Chinese characters and their stories strategically to propose alternative configurations of community and belonging grounded in affective structures and contest the coloniality of national imaginaries.

Nobody Should Know

Autor: Sonia Eska

Número de Páginas: 474

Elle a une enquête à mener. Il est là pour tout compromettre. Nora Jean, journaliste d’investigation pour un grand magazine new-yorkais, se voit confier une mission qui pourrait enfin faire décoller sa carrière : elle a été tirée au sort pour interviewer Dawn, la fille d’un puissant magnat de l’industrie, accusée du meurtre de son propre père. Alors que Nora Jean plonge dans les méandres de cette affaire sensationnelle, elle voit débarquer chez elle Deamon, le meilleur ami de son frère, qu’elle n’a pas revu depuis des années. D’un caractère ombrageux, il est indomptable, irrévérencieux, mais surtout il n’est pas revenu par hasard. Il a un secret inavoué, un agenda caché qui pourrait nuire à l’enquête de Nora Jean. Entre la pression de découvrir la vérité sur Dawn et les manipulations de Deamon pour l’en empêcher, la jeune femme se retrouve prise dans un jeu dangereux. Déterminée à démêler les fils de cette affaire complexe avant qu’il ne soit trop tard, Nora Jean va devoir décider à qui elle fait confiance. Mais son jugement pourrait bien être troublé par la présence de Deamon. Et peut-être pas que son jugement... Nobody...

Dialogues transculturels dans les Amériques

Autor: Anne Brüske , Herle-christin Jessen

Número de Páginas: 250

Dark Cells

Autor: Gregory Brazzil

Número de Páginas: 315

While visiting his supermodel girlfriend in Atlanta, P.I. Sherman Brothers slowly discovers that his past has come back to haunt him with a deadly vengeance. Not only has his assailant made him a marked man, but he’s also targeted three other prominent people from Sherman’s past, and to assure success, he’s enlisted the services of a notorious and ruthless Central American gang. For every day that goes by, things get more out of control as Sherman’s opponent proves just how diabolical he can be. Not only is our P.I. outnumbered and outgunned, but he’s also being shadowed by the FBI, and they aren’t happy!

Radical Health

Autor: Julie Avril Minich

Número de Páginas: 137

In Radical Health Julie Avril Minich examines the potential of Latinx expressive culture to intervene in contemporary health politics, elaborating how Latinx artists have critiqued ideologies of health that frame wellbeing in terms of personal behavior. Within this framework, poor health—obesity, asthma, diabetes, STIs, addiction, and high-risk pregnancies—is attributed to irresponsible lifestyle choices among the racialized poor. Countering this, Latinx writers and visual artists envision health not as individual duty but as communal responsibility. Bringing a disability justice approach to questions of health access and equity, Minich locates a concept of radical health within the work of Latinx artists, including the poetry of Rafael Campo, the music of Hurray for the Riff Raff, the fiction of Angie Cruz, and the performance art of Virginia Grise. Radical health operates as a modality that both challenges the stigma of unhealth and protests the social conditions that give rise to racial health disparities. Elaborating on this modality, Minich claims a critical role for Latinx artists in addressing the structural racism in public health.

The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature

Autor: R. Dalleo , E. Machado Sáez , Elena Machado Sáez

Número de Páginas: 210

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. In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market.

Encyclopedia of Latino Culture

Autor: Charles M. Tatum

Número de Páginas: 1467

This three-volume encyclopedia describes and explains the variety and commonalities in Latina/o culture, providing comprehensive coverage of a variety of Latina/o cultural forms—popular culture, folk culture, rites of passages, and many other forms of shared expression. In the last decade, the Latina/o population has established itself as the fastest growing ethnic group within the United States, and constitutes one of the largest minority groups in the nation. While the different Latina/o groups do have cultural commonalities, there are also many differences among them. This important work examines the historical, regional, and ethnic/racial diversity within specific traditions in rich detail, providing an accurate and comprehensive treatment of what constitutes "the Latino experience" in America. The entries in this three-volume set provide accessible, in-depth information on a wide range of topics, covering cultural traditions including food; art, film, music, and literature; secular and religious celebrations; and religious beliefs and practices. Readers will gain an appreciation for the historical, regional, and ethnic/racial diversity within specific Latina/o traditions....

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Latino History And Culture

Autor: D.h. Figueredo

Número de Páginas: 517

Aimed at beginners, this book looks at the history, folklore, and traditions of Hispanics in the United States and Latin America from the 16th century to the present day.

The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature

Autor: John Morán González , Laura Lomas

Número de Páginas: 858

The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature, the essays in this History provide a critical overview of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts as discussed by leading scholars in the field. This book demonstrates the relevance of Latina/o literature for a world defined by the migration of people, commodities, and cultural expressions.

Darnell Rock Reporting

Autor: Walter Dean Myers

Número de Páginas: 144

DARNELL ROCK IS not the kind of kid who volunteers to write for the newspaper—it sounds too much like homework. But this is Darnell’s last chance to pull himself together and make a positive contribution to his school. At first, Darnell would rather be hanging out with his sister and his friends. But soon he gets interested in the Oakdale Gazette. Much to his surprise, Darnell discovers that people pay attention to the words he writes. Before he knows it, Darnell changes from a kid who can’t do anything right to a person who can make a difference.

Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States

Autor: Juanita Heredia

Número de Páginas: 241

This collection of interviews demonstrates that U.S. Latinas/os of South American background have contributed pioneering work to U.S. Latina/o literature and culture in the twenty-first century. In conversation with twelve significant authors of South American descent in the United States, Juanita Heredia reveals that, through their transnational experiences, they have developed multicultural identities throughout different regions and cities across the country. However, these authors' works also exemplify a return to their heritage in South America through memory and travel, often showing that they maintain strong cultural and literary ties across national borders. As such, they have created a new chapter in trans-American history by finding new ways of imagining South America from their formation and influences in the U.S.

Homecoming Trails in Mexican American Cultural History

Autor: Roberto Cantú

Número de Páginas: 215

This volume brings together a number of critical essays on three selected topics: biography, nationhood, and globalism. Written exclusively for this book by specialists from Mexico, Germany, and the United States, the essays propose a reexamination of Mexican American cultural history from a twenty-first century standpoint, written in English and approached from different analytical models and critical methods, but free of theoretical jargon. The essays range from biographies and memoirs by leading Chicano historians and studies of globalism during the rule of Imperial Spain (1492-1898), to the modern rise and global influence of the United States, particularly in Mexico, Latin America and the Caribbean. Also included are critical studies of novels by Chicano, Latin American, and Caribbean writers who narrate and represent the dominant role played by the United States both within the nation itself and in the Caribbean, thus illustrating the historical parallels and relations that bind Latinos and Americans of Mexican descent. This book will be of importance to literary historians, literary critics, teachers, students, and readers interested in stimulating and unconventional...

Moving Beyond the Pandemic: English and American Studies in Spain

Autor: Aitor Ibarrola Armendáriz , Alberto Lázaro Lafuente , Alejandro Peraza Díaz , Amaia Ibarraran Bigalondo , Amaia Soroa Bacaicoa , Ángel Chaparro Sainz , Ángeles Jordán Soriano , Bárbara Arizti Martín , Celestino Deleyto , Celia Fullana , Cristina Aliaga-garcía , Daniela Pettersson-traba , David Hernández Coalla , David Walton , Eduardo De Gregorio-godeo , Elena Dobre , Ester Díaz Morillo , Eva Darias Beautell , Fabián Orán Llarena , Georgina Alvarez-morera , Gorka Braceras Martínez , Ingrid Mora-plaza , Irene Repiso Rodríguez , Isabel González Díaz , Isabel Oltra-massuet , Ismael Ibáñez Rosales , Iván Tamaredo Meira , Joan Carles Mora , José Francisco Fernández , Laura Gutiérrez González , Laura Martínez-garcía , Laura Monrós-gaspar , Lin Pettersson , Luz Mar González-arias , Mar Nieves Fernández , María Heredia-torres , María Isabel Marqués López , María Jesús Llarena Ascanio , Mario Serrano Losada , Miguel Sebastián-martín , Mireia Ortega , Miriam Borham-puyal , Neil Campbell , Noelia Castro Chao , Nora Rodríguez-loro , Óscar Alonso Álvarez , Rosa Haro Fernández , Rosario Arias , Sara Albán Barcia , Yolanda Fernández-pena

Número de Páginas: 254

"Moving beyond the Pandemic: English and American Studies in Spain" contains the Proceedings of the 44th AEDEAN (Asociación española de estudios anglo-norteamericanos) Conference held in November, 2021 at the University of Cantabria, Spain. The volume is structured into four different sections: “Plenary Speakers”, “Language and Linguistics”, “Literature and Culture” and “Round Tables”. The “Plenary Speakers” section includes papers written by two outstanding figures in the fields of Western Studies and Film Studies, respectively: Neil Campbell’s “An Inventory of Echoes”: Worlding the Western in Trump Era Fiction and Celestino Deleyto’s Transnational Stars and the Idea of Europe: Marion Cotillard, Diane Kruger. The “Language and Linguistics” section includes eleven papers that tackle a variety of issues concerning synchronic and diachronic phenomena in the English language of either native or non-native speakers at the phonetic, lexical, or grammatical level. These studies are indicative of the various current methodological approaches to research in subfields such as language teaching, contrastive linguistics, language contact or language...

Sex and the Citizen

Autor: Faith Smith

Número de Páginas: 305

Sex and the Citizen is a multidisciplinary collection of essays that draws on current anxieties about "legitimate" sexual identities and practices across the Caribbean to explore both the impact of globalization and the legacy of the region's history of sexual exploitation during colonialism, slavery, and indentureship. Speaking from within but also challenging the assumptions of feminism, literary and cultural studies, and queer studies, this volume questions prevailing oppositions between the backward, homophobic nation-state and the laid-back, service-with-a-smile paradise or between giving in ignominiously to the autocratic demands of the global north and equating postcolonial sovereignty with a "wholesome" heterosexual citizenry. The contributors use parliamentary legislation, novels, film, and other texts to examine Martinique's relationship to France; the diasporic relationships between the Dominican Republic and New York City, between India and Trinidad, and between Mexico's capital city and its Caribbean coast; "indigenous" names for sexual practices and desires in Suriname and the Eastern Caribbean; and other topics. This volume will appeal to readers interested in how...

Colonize This!

Autor: Daisy Hernandez , Bushra Rehman

Número de Páginas: 258

This landmark anthology offers gripping portraits of American life as seen through the eyes of young women of color It has been decades since women of color first turned feminism upside down, exposing the feminist movement as exclusive, white, and unaware of the concerns and issues of women of color from around the globe. Since then, key social movements have risen, including Black Lives Matter, the transgender movement, and the activism of young undocumented students. Social media has also changed how feminism looks for young women of color, generating connections and access to audiences in all corners of the country. But we remain a country divided by race and gender. Now, a new generation of outspoken women of color offer a much-needed fresh dimension to the shape of feminism of the future. In Colonize This!, Daisy Hernandez and Bushra Rehman have collected a diverse, lively group of emerging writers who speak to the strength of community and the influence of color, to borders and divisions, and to the critical issues that need to be addressed to finally reach an era of racial freedom. With prescient and intimate writing, Colonize This! will reach the hearts and minds of...

Embodied Economies

Autor: Israel Reyes

Número de Páginas: 253

How do upwardly mobile Latinx Caribbean migrants leverage their cultural heritage to buy into the American Dream? In the neoliberal economy of the United States, the discourse of white nationalism compels upwardly mobile immigrants to trade in their ties to ethnic and linguistic communities to assimilate to the dominant culture. For Latinx Caribbean immigrants, exiles, and refugees this means abandoning Spanish, rejecting forms of communal inter-dependence, and adopting white, middle-class forms of embodiment to mitigate any ethnic and racial identity markers that might hinder their upwardly mobile trajectories. This transactional process of acquiring and trading in various kinds of material and embodied practices across traditions is a phenomenon author Israel Reyes terms “transcultural capital,” and it is this process he explores in the contemporary fiction and theater of the Latinx Caribbean diaspora. In chapters that compare works by Lin-Manuel Miranda, Nilo Cruz, Edwin Sánchez, Ángel Lozada, Rita Indiana Hernández, Dolores Prida, and Mayra Santos Febres, Reyes examines the contradictions of transcultural capital, its potential to establish networks of support in Latinx ...

Transnational American Spaces

Autor: Tina Powell , Patricia Sagasti Suppes

Número de Páginas: 262

As people migrate, they face the need to create a stable space within a disconcertingly unfamiliar environment. This experience of creating new spaces opens opportunities for positive transcultural connections; however, these opportunities can also serve as the disciplining of the migrant body. This text focuses on the movement of bodies in transnational communities and the formation of domestic and communal spaces that provide respite from migratory paths, negotiate transnational relationships, or establish a new home. In doing so, we explore literary texts that question, challenge, and deepen our understanding of the experience of migration through the use of space and place. The texts in question examine three levels of transnational spaces: intimate spaces such as family, personal growth, or sexuality; inherited spaces reflected in generational conflicts, religious identity, and inherited histories; and national spaces that look at issues of broader national identities. The texts we examine engage with transnational communities within the United States, and the ways in which narratives reimagine new space to negotiate change and create new norms. These narratives can sometimes ...

Neighbor-Homes

Autor: Megan Jeanette Myers

Número de Páginas: 167

Neighbor-Homes: Julia Alvarez and Edwidge Danticat Write Hispaniola and the Diaspora analyzes the work of two of the most acclaimed contemporary American and Caribbean authors for the first time in a single book. Extending beyond scholarly approaches to home as a theoretical construct, Neighbor-Homes considers how Alvarez and Danticat inaugurate multiple spaces of belonging for their off- and on-island fictional characters, for their diverse community of readers, and for themselves. Revealing a more complex and complete understanding of these Hispaniola-rooted authors, the project places Alvarez and Danticat into conversation at a time when the construction of a border wall and racist immigration laws confirm increasing anti-Haitian sentiment in the Dominican Republic. Neighbor-Homes incorporates correspondence between the two writers to extrapolate diverse narrative representations of Hispaniola and to highlight various themes central to their work and social justice platforms including family relationships, community building, neighbor aesthetics, statelessness, and border solidarity. Neighbor-Homes will help interdisciplinary audiences read Danticat and Alvarez with a more...

Cuerpos extra/ordinarios

Autor: Varios Autores

Número de Páginas: 320

El volumen Cuerpos extra/ordinarios. Discursos y prácticas somáticas en América Latina y España reflexiona sobre la imbricación cuerpo-desvío poniendo a debate la condición cultural y politizada de todo cuerpo y partiendo de la centralidad de lo corpóreo como artefacto idóneo para leer las culturas que lo producen. Los ensayos aquí reunidos exploran la puesta en escena de lo extra/ordinario como morfología opuesta y (des) conectada de la normalidad, sus funciones y sus limitaciones. La idea de la transgresión —de una norma, de lo ordinario— supone el punto de partida, desde el cual parten los ensayos de este volumen para indagar tanto sobre la hibridez de los relatos de dicha transgresión, como sobre la rearticulación de otras narrativas (de piedad, de exhibición y de exotización, de corrección e incluso de aniquilación) que tradicionalmente acompañan a lo extra/ordinario. Explorar los horizontes de posibilidad de las narraciones en torno a estas figuras nómadas, en su constante oscilación entre lo familiar y lo extraño, entre lo desagradable y lo atractivo, entre lo interior y lo exterior, abre además nuevos caminos para el análisis de las estrategias...

Daring to Write

Autor: Erika M. Martinez

Número de Páginas: 234

With this new Latino literary collection Erika M. Martínez has brought together twenty-five engaging narratives written by Dominican women and women of Dominican descent living in the United States. The first volume of its kind, Daring to Write offers readers a wide array of works on a range of topics, including love and family, identity and belonging, immigration and the meaning of home. The resonant voices in this compilation reveal experiences that have been largely invisible until now. The volume opens with a foreword by Julia Alvarez and includes short stories, novel excerpts, memoirs, and personal essays and features work by established writers such as Angie Cruz and Nelly Rosario, alongside works by emerging writers. Narratives originally written in Spanish appear in English for the first time, translated by Achy Obejas. An important contribution to Latino/a studies, these writings will introduce readers to a new collection of rich literature. Contributors: Marivell Contreras, Kersy Corporan, Angie Cruz, Rhina P. Espaillat, Delta Eusebio, Noris Eusebio-Pol, Yalitza Ferreras, Carolina González, Farah Hallal, Ángela Hernández, Juleyka Lantigua-Williams, Ana-Maurine Lara,...

Border-Line Personalities

Autor: Michelle Herrera Mulligan , Robyn Moreno

Número de Páginas: 373

A collection of essays from some of the best writers in America, about what it means to be a fully functional, and sometimes fully dysfunctional, 21st–century, born–in–the–USA Latina Tired of the trite cultural clichés by which the media has defined Latinas, the editors of this collection of personal essays by both established and emerging authors, have gathered them with the intention of representing their varied experiences, through hilarious anecdotes from each of their colorful lives. While there is no one Latina identity, the editors believe that by offering a glimpse into these writers’ dynamic lives, they will facilitate a better understanding of their unique challenges and their dreams, and most important, their oftentimes shared histories. The contributors to this collection mirror the compassionate pleas Latinas usually reserve for each other over conversations in dark bars and late night gatherings. “Do they have to think that just because I’m a Latina that I can speak Spanish, curl my hair, paint my toe nails, and dance a rumba--all at the same time?” This, along with other interesting questions, results in a spectacular line up that has Latinas musing ...

Testimony

Autor: United States Commission On Civil Rights

Número de Páginas: 422

"Hearing held in Denver, Colorado, July 28-29, 1977."--T.p.

Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature

Autor: Francisco A. Lomelí , Donaldo W. Urioste , María Joaquina Villaseñor

Número de Páginas: 519

U.S. Latino Literature is defined as Latino literature within the United States that embraces the heterogeneous inter-groupings of Latinos. For too long U.S. Latino literature has not been thought of as an integral part of the overall shared American literary landscape, but that is slowly changing. This dictionary aims to rectify some of those misconceptions by proving that Latinos do fundamentally express American issues, concerns and perspectives with a flair in linguistic cadences, familial themes, distinct world views, and cross-cultural voices. The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature contains a chronology, an introduction, and an extensive bibliography. The dictionary section has cross-referenced entries on U.S. Latino/a authors, and terms relevant to the nature of U.S. Latino literature in order to illustrate and corroborate its foundational bearings within the overall American literary experience. This book is an excellent access point for students, researchers, and anyone wanting to know more about this subject.

La Voz

Número de Páginas: 200

American Studies after Postmodernism

Autor: Theodora Tsimpouki , Konstantinos Blatanis , Angeliki Tseti

Número de Páginas: 340

This book explores the major challenges that the long-standing and diversely debated demise of postmodernism signifies for American literature, art, culture, history, and politics, in the present, third decade of the twenty-first century. Its scope comprises a vigorous discussion of all these diverse fields undertaken by distinguished scholars as well as junior researchers, U.S. Americanists and European Americanists alike. Focusing on socio-political and cultural developments in the contemporary U.S., their contributions highlight the interconnectedness of the geopolitical, economic, environmental and technological crises that define the historical present on global scale. Chapter 16 is available open access under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License via link.springer.com.