The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature

The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature, the essays in this History provide a critical overview of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts as discussed by leading scholars in the field. This book demonstrates the relevance of Latina/o literature for a world defined by the migration of people, commodities, and cultural expressions.

Table of Contents:
List of contributors; Acknowledgements: Introduction; Part I. Rereading the Colonial Archive: Transculturation and Conflict, 1492–1810: 1. Indigenous Herencias: Creoles, mestizaje, and nations before nationalism; 2. Performing to a captive audience: dramatic encounters in the borderlands of empire; 3. The tricks of the weak: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the feminist temporality of Latina literature; 4. Rethinking the colonial Latinx literary imaginary: a comparative and decolonial research agenda; 5. The historical and imagined cultural geographies of Latinidad; Part II. The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature: The Literary Emergence of a Trans-American Imaginary, 1783–1912: 6. Whither Latinidad?: the trajectories of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o literature; 7. Father Félix Varela and the emergence of an organized Latina/o minority in early nineteenth-century New York City; 8. Transamerican New Orleans: Latino literature of the Gulf of Mexico, from the Spanish colonial period to post-Katrina; 9. Trajectories of exchange: toward histories of Latino literature; 10. Narratives of displacement in places that once were Mexican; 11. Latina feminism, Latina racism and unspeakable violence: travel narratives, novels of reform, and histories of genocide and lynching; 12. José Martí, comparative reading, and the emergence of Latino modernity in gilded-age New York; 13. Afro-Latinidad: phoenix rising from a hemisphere's racist flames; Part III. Negotiating Literary Modernity: Between Colonial Subjectivity and National Citizenship, 1910–1979: 14. Oratory, memoir, and theater: performances of race and class in the early twentieth-century Latina/o public sphere; 15. Literary revolutions in the borderlands: transnational dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and its diaspora in the United States; 16. Making it nuevo: Latina/o modernist poetics remake high Euro-American modernism; 17. The archive and Afro-Latina/o field-formation: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American literatures; 18. Floricanto en Aztlán: Chicano cultural nationalism and its epic discontents; 19. 'The geography of their complexion': Nuyorican poetry and its legacies; 20. Cuban American counterpoint: the heterogeneity of Cuban American literature, culture, and politics; 21. Latina/o theater and performance in the contexts of social movements; Part IV. Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017: 22. Undocumented immigration in Latina/o literature; 23. Latina feminist theory and writing; 24. Invisible no more: US central American literature before and beyond the age of neoliberalism; 25. Latina/o life narratives: crafting self-referential forms in the colonial milieu of the Americas; 26. Poetics of the 'majority minority'; 27. The Quisqueya diaspora: the emergence of Latina/o literature from Hispaniola; 28. Listening to literature: popular music, voice, and dance in the Latina/o literary imagination, 1980–2010; 29. Brazuca literature: old and new currents, countercurrents, and undercurrents; 30. Staging Latinidad and interrogating neoliberalism in contemporary Latina/o performance and border art; 31. Transamerican popular forms of Latina/o literature: genre fiction, graphic novels, and digital environments; 32. trauma, translation, and migration in the crossfire of the Americas: the intersection of Latina/o and South American literatures; 33. The Mesoamerican corridor, central American transits, and Latina/o becomings; 34. Differential visions: the diasporic stranger, subalternity, and the transing of experience in US Puerto Rican literature; 35. Temporal borderlands: toward decolonial queer temporality in Latina/o literature; Epilogue: Latina/o literature: the borders are burning; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.

About the Author :
John Morán González (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1998) is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature (2009) and The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (2010). His articles and reviews have appeared in American Literature, American Literary History, Aztlán, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Symbolism, Western Historical Quarterly and Western American Literature. He edited The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature (2016). Llaura Lomas (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2001) is Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark, where she teaches Latina/o and comparative American literature. Her first book Translating Empire: José Martí, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities (2008), won the Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize for Latina/o and Chicana/o literature and an honourable mention from the Latin American Studies Association's Latina/o Studies Section. She is currently writing a monograph on Lourdes Casal and interdisciplinarity and preparing an anthologies of Casal's collected writings. Lomas has published essays and book chapters most recently in Small Axe, The Latino Nineteenth Century, Translation Review, Cuban Studies, and American Literature.

Review :
'This edited collection extends the discussion of Latin literature beyond the borders of the Americas. … This book is an absolute necessity for students of Latin American literature. Essential.' K. Gale, Choice