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This study demonstrates the ways that Latina authors contest how
power and space exploit women while simultaneously subverting the
Nation-State through reimagining a counter-space where new
definitions of the self lie beyond Power's reach. Moreover, this
book delves into how both Power and Space collude to uphold the
out-of-date sexist, racist, and classist societal norms that
Eurocentrism and history continue to cleave to as the defining
qualities of the nation and its citizens. With the proliferation of
Latin literature within the United States, an ideological
readjustment is taking place whereby several late twentieth- and
early twenty-first-century authors contest the State's role in
defining its citizens by exposing the unjust role that Space and
Power play. With this in mind, the author examines several literary
versions of identity to explore how certain authors reject and
subvert the social mores against which present-day citizens are
measured-especially within government or State institutions but
also within families and neighborhoods. The literary works that are
analyzed cover a period of twenty-five years ending in 2010.
Several of these texts rewrite the national allegory from the point
of view of the marginalized while others demonstrate how an
individual successfully renegotiates her identity-gender, social
class, or ethnicity-from being a disadvantage to being an identity
marker to celebrate. The authors defy the place that women are
still relegated to, by representing several characters who
consciously decide that it is time to battle the forces that would
keep them powerless in the public arena. Above all, these texts are
anti-Power; the protagonists refuse to accept the societal forces
which constantly barrage them, defining them as worthless. These
authors and their characters challenge everything that historically
has kept women relegated to a space of weakness.
This study demonstrates the ways that Latina authors contest how
power and space exploit women while simultaneously subverting the
Nation-State through reimagining a counter-space where new
definitions of the self lie beyond Power's reach. Moreover, this
book delves into how both Power and Space collude to uphold the
out-of-date sexist, racist, and classist societal norms that
Eurocentrism and history continue to cleave to as the defining
qualities of the nation and its citizens. With the proliferation of
Latin literature within the United States, an ideological
readjustment is taking place whereby several late twentieth- and
early twenty-first-century authors contest the State's role in
defining its citizens by exposing the unjust role that Space and
Power play. With this in mind, the author examines several literary
versions of identity to explore how certain authors reject and
subvert the social mores against which present-day citizens are
measured-especially within government or State institutions but
also within families and neighborhoods. The literary works that are
analyzed cover a period of twenty-five years ending in 2010.
Several of these texts rewrite the national allegory from the point
of view of the marginalized while others demonstrate how an
individual successfully renegotiates her identity-gender, social
class, or ethnicity-from being a disadvantage to being an identity
marker to celebrate. The authors defy the place that women are
still relegated to, by representing several characters who
consciously decide that it is time to battle the forces that would
keep them powerless in the public arena. Above all, these texts are
anti-Power; the protagonists refuse to accept the societal forces
which constantly barrage them, defining them as worthless. These
authors and their characters challenge everything that historically
has kept women relegated to a space of weakness.
Although fictional-and often fantastic-representations of nature
have been a distinguishing feature of Latin American literature for
centuries, ecocriticism, understood as the study of literature as
it relates to depictions of the natural world, environmental
issues, and the ways in which human beings interact and identify
with their natural surroundings, did not emerge as a field of
scholarly interest in the region until the end of the twentieth
century. This volume employs an ecocritical lens in order to
explore and question the use of the river imagery in Latino and
Latin American literature from the colonial period to our modern
world, creating a space in which to examine both its literal and
figurative meanings, associated as much with processes of a
personal nature as with those of the collective experience in the
region. The slow, meandering streams of nostalgia, the raging
currents of conflict or the stagnant waters of social decay are
just a few of the ways in which the river has become an important
symbol and inspiration to many of the region's writers. This book
offers a diverse collection of writings that, through a
trans-historical and trans-geographical perspective, allows us,
from the vantage point of the twenty-first century, to reflect on
the rich and dynamic image of the river and, by extension, on the
vital context of Latin/o America, its people and societies.
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 speakers and
non-Latinx students. This has created a vacuum in research about
Latinx literary production in Spanish, leaving the contemporary
field wide open for exploration. This volume fills this space by
bringing contemporary U.S. Latinx literature in Spanish to the
forefront of the field. The essays focus on literary production
post-1960 and examine texts by authors from different backgrounds
writing from the U.S., providing readers with an opportunity to
explore new texts in Spanish within U.S. Latinx literature, and a
departure point for starting a meaningful critical discourse about
what it means to write and publish in Spanish in the U.S. Through
exploring literary production in a language that is both
emotionally and politically charged for authors, the academia, and
the U.S., this book challenges and enhances our understanding of
the term 'Americas'.
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