The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture

Engaging Blackness

Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, American, Nonfiction, Social & Cultural Studies, Social Science, Cultural Studies, African-American Studies
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Author: Jill Toliver Richardson ISBN: 9783319319216
Publisher: Springer International Publishing Publication: September 21, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Language: English
Author: Jill Toliver Richardson
ISBN: 9783319319216
Publisher: Springer International Publishing
Publication: September 21, 2016
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Language: English

This bookexamines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s.  The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights the writers’ aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging.  Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery.

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This bookexamines contemporary Afro-Latin@ literature and its depiction of the multifaceted identity encompassing the separate identifications of Americans and the often-conflicting identities of blacks and Latin@s.  The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture highlights the writers’ aims to define Afro-Latin@ identity, to rewrite historical narratives so that they include the Afro-Latin@ experience and to depict the search for belonging.  Their writing examines the Afro-Latin@ encounter with race within the US and exposes the trauma resulting from the historical violence of colonialism and slavery.

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