Contemporary U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish Straddling Identities /

• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Other Authors: Das, Amrita (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Quinn-Sánchez, Kathryn (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt), Shaul, Michele (Editor, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Literatures of the Americas
• Subjects: Latin American literature.; Comparative literature.; Philology.; Linguistics.; Latin American/Caribbean Literature.; Comparative Literature.; Language and Literature.

U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish remains an understudied field despite its large and vibrant corpus. This is partly due to the erroneous impression that this literature is only written in English, and partly due to traditional educational programs focusing on English texts to include non-Spanish sp...

Table of Contents:

• 1. U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish: Claiming its Rightful Place; Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez Michele Shaul
• 2. Rethinking the Lens of Spanish: Grounding a Chicana Feminist Language; Elena Avilés
• 3. Self-Representation and the Dual Reality of Identity in the Spanish-language Poetry of Javier O. Huerta; Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara
• 4. Two Narratives of Memories Between Borders: Flourishing of a Transnational Identity; Cynthia Meléndrez
• 5. Untangling Literary Knots: Writing, Memory, and Identity in Sonia Rivera-Valdés' Rosas de Abolengo (2011); María Celina Bortolotto
• 6. When Whiteness Means Imagining Blackness and Signifying Socio-Cultural Difference; JM. Persánch
• 7. The Rise of Latino Americanism: Deterritorialization and Postnational Imagination in Joseph Avski, Yuri Herrera, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, and Luis Marcelino Gómez; Francisco Laguna-Correa
• 8. Conclusion: Continuing the Dialogue; Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez Michele Shaul.