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Latinx Literature Now

Between Evanescence and Event

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Authors:
  1. Ricardo L. Ortiz

    1. Department of English, Georgetown University, Georgetown, USA

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  • Explores what it means to conceive of a collective known as Latinx
  • Contributes new readings of the performance of latinidad
  • Questions the stakes of what it means to call a piece of writing 'literature'

Part of the book series: Literatures of the Americas (LOA)

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Table of contents (7 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xvi
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  2. The Trouble(s) with Unity: Performative Latinidades Between Culture and Politics

    • Ricardo L. Ortiz
    Pages 1-12

  3. Reiterating Performatives: The Writer, the Reader and the Risks of Literary Action

    • Ricardo L. Ortiz
    Pages 13-21

  4. Archive and Diaspora: Julia Alvarez as Poet, Novelist, and Historian

    • Ricardo L. Ortiz
    Pages 23-33

  5. Against Against Literature: Histories of Fiction, Fictions of History

    • Ricardo L. Ortiz
    Pages 35-48

  6. The Testimonial Imagination or, Literary Practice “After” Testimonio

    • Ricardo L. Ortiz
    Pages 49-58

  7. Un-Homey States: Econo-Mimetics of Homelessness in US Latinx Poetry

    • Ricardo L. Ortiz
    Pages 59-72

  8. (Latinx) Literature’s Work: Between Being and Becoming, Product and Practice

    • Ricardo L. Ortiz
    Pages 73-86

  9. Back Matter

    Pages 87-100
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About this book

Latinx Literature Now engages with a diverse collection of works in Latinx literary studies, critical theory, and the philosophy of history, as well as a wide range of Latinx literary texts, in order to offer readers an alternative model of how Latinx literary scholarship and Latinx literary criticism might go about doing their work. It encourages practitioners in the field to reflect on literature and latinidad together as both parallel and intersecting historical-cultural formations, and to assess from that reflection how literary works might uniquely condition and depict latinidad as something other than a fixed, stable category of identity, as instead an ongoing process of becoming, one always capable of promise, but also always vulnerable to risk, threat, precarity and even disappearance: that is, as always more prone to the performative flash of an evanescence than to the ontological solidity of an event.

Authors and Affiliations

  • Department of English, Georgetown University, Georgetown, USA

    Ricardo L. Ortiz

About the author

Ricardo L. Ortiz is Associate Professor of Latinx Literature and Culture at Georgetown University, USA.

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