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Latinx Literature Unbound : Undoing Ethnic Expectation.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: New York : Fordham University Press, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (193 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780823279418
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Latinx Literature UnboundDDC classification:
  • 860.9868073
LOC classification:
  • PQ7081 .R637 2018
Online resources:
Contents:
Cover -- LATINX LITERATURE UNBOUND -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Latinx Literature -- 1. Brown Like Me? The Author-Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies -- 2. Confounding the Mimetic: The Metafictional Challenge to Representation -- 3. From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story -- 4. The Lyric, or, a Radical Singularity in Latinx Verse -- Conclusion: Thinking beyond Limits -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.
Summary: Latinx Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latinx. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latinx.
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Cover -- LATINX LITERATURE UNBOUND -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- CONTENTS -- Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk about Latinx Literature -- 1. Brown Like Me? The Author-Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies -- 2. Confounding the Mimetic: The Metafictional Challenge to Representation -- 3. From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story -- 4. The Lyric, or, a Radical Singularity in Latinx Verse -- Conclusion: Thinking beyond Limits -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.

Latinx Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latinx. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latinx.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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