Overview
- Analyzes literature across various forms ranging from novels to poetry to hip-hop
- Offers one of the first comparative analysis of Afro-Latin@ writers and experiences of blackness, working to dig deeper than any study before it to conceptualize what defines Afro-Latin@ literature
- Examines the growing commitment of Afro-Latin@ writers to excavate historical silences and to reimagine official national narratives by inserting the traditionally repressed voices of Afro-Latin@s
Part of the book series: Afro-Latin@ Diasporas (ALD)
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Table of contents (7 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
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About this book
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.
Authors and Affiliations
About the author
Jill Toliver Richardson is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), USA where she teaches Contemporary Urban Writers and Latina/o Literature and composition. She was a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship and has previously published in the journals Label Me Latina/o and CENTRO.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Book Subtitle: Engaging Blackness
Authors: Jill Toliver Richardson
Series Title: Afro-Latin@ Diasporas
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31921-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
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: 978-3-319-31920-9Published: 28 September 2016
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-319-81154-3Published: 22 April 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-3-319-31921-6Published: 21 September 2016
Series ISSN: 2945-6835
Series E-ISSN: 2945-6843
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 170
Topics: Latino Culture, African American Culture, North American Literature, Contemporary Literature