Overview
- Sheds light on the construction of Latina/o identity in literature by investigating questions of gender, race, and sexuality
- Challenges narrow conceptions of mapping by considering multiple ways of mapping across time and space
- Broadens typical scope of Latino/a criticism by considering together nineteenth through twenty-first century works of Latino/a literature.
Part of the book series: Literatures of the Americas (LOA)
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Table of contents (15 chapters)
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Back Matter
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About this book
This book broadens the scope of Latina/o criticism to include both widely-read and understudied nineteenth through twenty-first century fictional works that engage in critical discussions of gender, race, sexuality, and identity. The essays in this collection do not simply seek inclusion for the texts they critically discuss, but suggest that we more thoughtfully consider the utility of mapping, whether we are mapping land, borders, time, migration, or connections and disconnections across time and space. Using new and rigorous methodological approaches to reading Latina/o literature, contributors reveal a varied and textured landscape, challenging us to reconsider the process and influence of literary production across borders.
Reviews
“Urges and insists on a configuration of literary interpretation that is mobile, apprehensive, and necessary ... . This collection of writers are uninhibited and unapologetic about our times. One of the best examples of Chicana/o and Latina/o engagement of new landscapes and frontiers, this book is propelled by the insufficiency of attention paid to the Latina/o experience and explores ways to address the unrest of a new generation of scholarship.” (Ellie D. Hernández, Associate Professor, University of California Santa Barbara, USA)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Cristina Herrera is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script and has published in Chicana/Latina Studies, Confluencia, and Journal of Caribbean Literatures.
Larissa M. Mercado-López is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women’s Studies at California State University, Fresno, USA. Mercado-López is the co-editor of El Mundo Zurdo 3 and El Mundo Zurdo 4, and has published in Diálogo, Chicana/Latina Studies, and collections from Demeter Press.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: (Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape
Editors: Cristina Herrera, Larissa M. Mercado-López
Series Title: Literatures of the Americas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-349-94901-4
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-349-94900-7Published: 03 August 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95671-5Published: 30 May 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-349-94901-4Published: 10 August 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-601X
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6028
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 258
Topics: Latino Culture, Postcolonial/World Literature, Twentieth-Century Literature, Contemporary Literature