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Contemporary U.S. Latino/ A Literary Criticism

Part of the American Literature Readings in the 21st Century Book Series

Editors: Di Iorio Sandín, Lyn; Perez, Richard

DOI: 10.1057/9780230609266

ISBN: 978-1-349-53862-1

Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan US - Springer Journals

Oct 7, 2015

1 - 10 of 12 Chapters

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Introduction New Waves in U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism

Di Iorio Sandín, Lyn; Perez, Richard

Pages: 1 –11

[Over the last decade, U.S. Latino/a literary criticism has emerged as an innovative and invigorating theoretical presence, reflecting the similarly exciting and unprecedented literary production by Latino/a novelists, essayists, and poets. Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism brings to...
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The Latino Scapegoat: Knowledge through Death in Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates and Junot Díaz

Di Iorio Sandín, Lyn

Pages: 15 –33

[In Killing Spanish: Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Identity (2004), a recent book of literary criticism, I suggest the idea that in many contemporary U.S. Latino/a works of fiction, the violent death of a double character, usually a woman, represents ambivalence about U.S. Latino/a identity,...
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Alternative Visions and the Souvenir Collectible in Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints

Chevalier, Victoria A.

Pages: 35 –59

[In the first page of Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints (2002), the reviewer from Time Out New York, one voice in a long list of critical acclaim, celebrates the novel in telling language: “(l)ush and assured … each brief chapter reads like a snapshot of a soul.”1 In an overt reference to...
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Spirited Identities: Creole Religions, Creole/U.S. Latina Literature, and the Initiated Reader

Olmos, Margarite Fernández

Pages: 63 –92

[In nineteenth-century Caribbean, while the three major African-derived religions in Cuba—La Regla de Ocha (the Rule of the Orisha) or Santería (the way of the saints), Regla de Palo, and the Abakuá Secret Society—were undergoing a consolidation, Spiritualist and Spiritist practices of North...
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Racial Spills and Disfigured Faces in Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Junot Díaz’s “Ysrael”

Perez, Richard

Pages: 93 –112

[The face is a paradoxical figure of identification that pervades U.S. Latino literature. It oscillates, almost magically, between a truthful presence and a dissimulative mask. In a peculiar sense, the face communicates a promise of legibility followed by a realization that, in fact, it hides as...
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The Once and Future Latino: Notes Toward a Literary History todavía para llegar

Gruesz, Kirsten Silva

Pages: 115 –142

[Alfredo Véa’s exhilaratingly strange novel Gods Go Begging (1999)1 is structured around an extensive analogy between soldiers in battle and urban gang members. Both have effectively been left to perish, whether on a hill in Viet Nam or in the housing projects of San Francisco—the settings of its...
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Hurricanes, Magic, Science, and Politics in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters

Luis, William

Pages: 143 –164

[I have asked myself what similarities may exist between 1898 and 1998, and how they relate to Latino U.S. literature and culture. Since we have begun a new century, I am tempted to associate the two dates with current debates surrounding the fin de siecle, or even with Frank Kermode’s The Sense...
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Latin Americans and Latinos: Terms of Engagement

de la Campa, Román

Pages: 165 –181

[The 1990s witnessed increased attention in Latino studies from many different disciplines and ethnic groups, including larger number of specialists in Latin America. A certain eagerness to engage the topic became evident, as the Latin American studies center of gravity began to shift from area...
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“Inheriting” Exile: Cuban-American Writers in the Diaspora

Herrera, Andrea O’Reilly

Pages: 183 –205

[Public dissent in Cuba—over ideological differences or as a result of disintegrating economic and social conditions—has been witnessed on a large scale by the exodus that followed in the wake of the 1959 revolution. Since that time, more than one-tenth of Cuba’s present-day population has...
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“So Your Social is Real?” Vernacular Theorists and Economic Transformation

Brady, Mary Pat

Pages: 209 –226

[The struggle among politicians in the United States to leverage their fortunes to both the backlash against immigration and the mass movement to clarify and improve working conditions for immigrant laborers points to a singular question of articulation: the difficulty with which popular accounts...

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