TY  - GEN
T1  - Latinx literature unbound : undoing ethnic expectation
A1  - Rodriguez, Ralph E. (Ralph Edward), 1965-
LA  - English
PP  - New York
PB  - Fordham University Press
YR  - 2018
ED  - First edition.
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1029605490
AB  - Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latina/o writers. The extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latina/o and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category--Latina/o--under which we group this literature. Latina/o Literature Unbound, thus, begins with a fundamental question "What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latina/o?" From this question a host of others spin out: What does that grouping allow us to see, predispose us to see, and preclude us from seeing? If the grouping--which brings together a heterogeneous collection of people and groups 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, Latina/o Literature Unbound seeks to unbind Latina/o literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latina/o for organizing and analyzing this literature. Following a neo-formalist interpretive model that privileges reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, the book argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature. Finally, Latina/o Literature Unbound suggests some ways in which we might want to proceed as we move forward with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as Latina/o
OP  - 181
CN  - PS153.H56 R63 2018
SN  - 9780823281442
SN  - 0823281442
SN  - 9780823279258
SN  - 0823279251
SN  - 9780823279418
SN  - 0823279413
SN  - 9780823279234
SN  - 0823279243
SN  - 9780823279241
SN  - 0823279235
KW  - American literature : Hispanic American authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Hispanic American literature (Spanish) : History and criticism.
KW  - Latin American literature : History and criticism.
KW  - Littérature américaine : Auteurs américains d'origine latino-américaine : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature américaine (espagnole) : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Littérature latino-américaine : Histoire et critique.
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM : Caribbean & Latin American.
KW  - Hispanic American literature (Spanish)
KW  - American literature : Hispanic American authors
KW  - Latin American literature
KW  - Identity.
KW  - Latina/o literature.
KW  - Literary Theory.
KW  - Metafiction.
KW  - Neo-Formalism.
KW  - Novel.
KW  - Poetry.
KW  - Race and Ethnicity.
KW  - Short Story.
KW  - Taxonomy.
KW  - Electronic books.
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -