Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category under which we group this literature. Latinx Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question “What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latinx?” From this question others emerge: What does Latinx allow or predispose us to see, and what does it preclude us from seeing? If the grouping—which brings together a heterogeneous collection of people under a seemingly homogeneous label—tells us something meaningful, is there a poetics we can develop that would facilitate our analysis of this literature?
In answering these questions, Latinx Literature Unbound frees Latinx literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latinx for organizing and analyzing this literature. Privileging the act of reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, Ralph E. Rodriguez argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature and suggests new ways we might proceed with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as Latinx.
Inhoudsopgave
Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk About Latina/o Literature
Chapter 1: Brown Like Me?: The Author Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies
Chapter 2: Confounding the Mimetic: The Meta-Fictional Challenge to Representation
Chapter 3: From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story
Chapter 4: The Lyric, or, A Radical Singularity in Latina/o Verse
Conclusion: Thinking Beyond Limits
Over de auteur
Ralph E. Rodriguez is Professor of American Studies, Ethnic Studies, and English at Brown University. He is the author of Brown Gumshoes: Detective Fiction and the Search for Chicana/o Identity.
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