TY  - GEN
T1  - Shared selves : Latinx memoir and ethical alternatives to humanism
T2  - Transformations (University of Illinois (System). Press)
A1  - Bost, Suzanne
LA  - English
PP  - Urbana
PB  - University of Illinois Press
YR  - 2019
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1122450369
AB  - "Memoir typically places selfhood at the center. Interestingly, the genre's recent surge in popularity coincides with breakthroughs in scholarship focused on selfhood in a new way: as an always renewing, always emerging entity. Suzanne Bost draws on feminist and posthumanist ideas to explore how three contemporary memoirists decenter the self. Latinx writers John Rechy, Aurora Levins Morales, and Gloria E. Anzaldúa work in places where personal history intertwines with communities, environments, animals, plants, and spirits. This dedication to interconnectedness resonates with ideas in posthumanist theory while calling on Indigenous worldviews. As Bost argues, our view of life itself expands if we look at how such frameworks interact with queer theory, disability studies, ecological thinking, and other fields. These webs of relation in turn mediate experience, agency, and life itself"--
CN  - PS153.H56 B67 2019
SN  - 9780252051654
SN  - 0252051653
SN  - 9780252042799
SN  - 9780252084621
SN  - 0252042794
SN  - 0252084624
KW  - Hispanic American authors : Biography : History and criticism.
KW  - Hispanic Americans : Biography : History and criticism.
KW  - Autobiography : Hispanic American authors : History and criticism.
KW  - Biography as a literary form.
KW  - Biography.
KW  - Écrivains américains d'origine latino-américaine : Biographies : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Américains d'origine latino-américaine : Biographies : Histoire et critique.
KW  - Biographie (Genre littéraire)
KW  - Biographies.
KW  - biographies (literary genre)
KW  - biography (general genre)
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : General.
KW  - Autobiography : Hispanic American authors
KW  - Hispanic Americans : Biography
KW  - Biography as a literary form
KW  - Humanism in literature
KW  - Womanism in literature
KW  - Women's studies
KW  - Criticism, interpretation, etc.
ER  -