ISBN:
9783319319216
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (X, 170 p)
Edition:
Springer eBook Collection. Literature, Cultural and Media Studies
Series Statement:
Afro-LatinDiasporas
Parallel Title:
Printed edition
Keywords:
Culture Study and teaching
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Ethnology Latin America
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Literature, Modern 20th century
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Literature, Modern 21st century
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America Literatures
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African Americans
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African Americans.
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Ethnology—Latin America.
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America—Literatures.
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Literature, Modern—20th century.
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Literature, Modern—21st century.
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USA
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Literatur
;
Hispanos
;
Afroamerikanismus
;
Ethnische Identität
Abstract:
This book examines contemporary Afro-Latinliterature 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
Abstract:
Introduction -- Chapter One: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Chapter Two:Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican Women’s Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home -- Chapter Three:‘Boricua, Moreno’: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints -- Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillo’s Loosing My Espanish -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad
DOI:
10.1007/978-3-319-31921-6
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