The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture
Engaging Blackness
Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies
| Author: | Jill Toliver Richardson | ISBN: | 9783319319216 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing | Publication: | September 21, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan | Language: | English |
| Author: | Jill Toliver Richardson |
| ISBN: | 9783319319216 |
| Publisher: | Springer International Publishing |
| Publication: | September 21, 2016 |
| Imprint: | Palgrave Macmillan |
| Language: | English |
This bookexamines 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.
This bookexamines 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.
