TY - GEN T1 - Latinx writing Los Angeles : nonfiction dispatches from a decolonial rebellion A2 - López-Calvo, Ignacio A2 - Valle, Victor M. LA - English PP - Lincoln PB - University of Nebraska Press YR - 2018 UL - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_on1026492373 AB - Latinx Writing Los Angeles offers a critical anthology of Los Angeles's most significant English-language and Spanish-language (in translation) nonfiction writing from the city's inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and writers such as Harry Gamboa Jr., Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Rubén Martínez, focus on the ways in which Latinx Los Angeles's nonfiction narratives record the progressive racialization and subalternization of Latinxs in the southwestern United States. While notions of racial memory, coloniality, biopolitics, internal colonialism, cultural assimilation, Mexican or pan-Latinx cultural nationalism, and transnationalism permeate this anthology, contributors advocate the idea of a contested modernity that refuses to accept mainstream cultural impositions, proposing instead alternative ways of knowing and understanding. Featuring a wide variety of voices as well as a diversity of subgenres, this collection is the first to illuminate divergent, hybrid Latinx histories and cultures. Redefining Los Angeles's literary history and providing a new model for English, Spanish, and Latinx studies, Latinx Writing Los Angeles is an essential contribution to southwestern and borderland studies. OP - 234 CN - PS508.H57 L45 2018eb SN - 9781496206152 SN - 1496206150 SN - 9781496206176 SN - 1496206177 SN - 9781496202413 SN - 1496202414 SN - 9781496206169 SN - 1496206169 KW - American literature : Hispanic American authors. KW - American literature : California : Los Angeles. KW - Hispanic Americans : Literary collections. KW - Hispanic Americans : Intellectual life. KW - Littérature américaine : Auteurs américains d'origine latino-américaine. KW - Littérature américaine : Californie : Los Angeles. KW - Américains d'origine latino-américaine : Anthologies. KW - Américains d'origine latino-américaine : Vie intellectuelle. KW - LITERARY CRITICISM : American : General. KW - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Ethnic Studies : Hispanic American Studies. KW - American literature KW - American literature : Hispanic American authors KW - Hispanic Americans KW - Hispanic Americans : Intellectual life KW - California : Los Angeles KW - Literary collections ER -