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During the early colonial encounter, children's books were among
the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing
the new colony, its people, and the US's role as a
twentieth-century colonial power to the public. Subsequently, youth
literature and media were important tools of Puerto Rican cultural
and educational elite institutions and Puerto Rican revolutionary
thought as a means of negotiating US assimilation and upholding a
strong Latin American, Caribbean national stance. In Side by Side:
US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature
and Culture, author Marilisa Jimenez Garcia focuses on the
contributions of the Puerto Rican community to American youth,
approaching Latinx literature as a transnational space that
provides a critical lens for examining the lingering consequences
of US and Spanish colonialism for US communities of color. Through
analysis of such texts typically outside traditional Latinx or
literary studies as young adult literature, textbooks, television
programming, comics, music, curriculum, and youth movements, Side
by Side represents the only comprehensive study of the
contributions of Puerto Ricans to American youth literature and
culture, as well as the only comprehensive study into the role of
youth literature and culture in Puerto Rican literature and
thought. Considering recent debates over diversity in children's
and young adult literature and media and the strained relationship
between Puerto Rico and the US, Jimenez Garcia's timely work
encourages us to question who constitutes the expert and to resist
the homogenization of Latinxs, as well as other marginalized
communities, that has led to the erasure of writers, scholars, and
artists.
During the early colonial encounter, children's books were among
the first kinds of literature produced by US writers introducing
the new colony, its people, and the US's role as a
twentieth-century colonial power to the public. Subsequently, youth
literature and media were important tools of Puerto Rican cultural
and educational elite institutions and Puerto Rican revolutionary
thought as a means of negotiating US assimilation and upholding a
strong Latin American, Caribbean national stance. In Side by Side:
US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature
and Culture, author Marilisa Jimenez Garcia focuses on the
contributions of the Puerto Rican community to American youth,
approaching Latinx literature as a transnational space that
provides a critical lens for examining the lingering consequences
of US and Spanish colonialism for US communities of color. Through
analysis of such texts typically outside traditional Latinx or
literary studies as young adult literature, textbooks, television
programming, comics, music, curriculum, and youth movements, Side
by Side represents the only comprehensive study of the
contributions of Puerto Ricans to American youth literature and
culture, as well as the only comprehensive study into the role of
youth literature and culture in Puerto Rican literature and
thought. Considering recent debates over diversity in children's
and young adult literature and media and the strained relationship
between Puerto Rico and the US, Jimenez Garcia's timely work
encourages us to question who constitutes the expert and to resist
the homogenization of Latinxs, as well as other marginalized
communities, that has led to the erasure of writers, scholars, and
artists.
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