Latinidad at the Crossroads: Insights into Latinx Identity in the Twenty-First Century PDF
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Latinidad at the Crossroads Critical Approaches to Ethnic American Literature General Editors Jesús Benito Sánchez (Universidad de Valladolid) Ana María Manzanas (Universidad de Salamanca) Editorial Board Babs Boter (Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam) Ewa Antoszek (Maria Curie- Sklodowska University) Mary Pat Brady (Cornell University) Isabel Caldeira (University of Coimbra) Nathalie Cochoy (Université Toulouse) Cristina Garrigós (National University of Distance Education) Markus Heide (Uppsala University) Dalia Kandiyoti (The City University of New York) Paul Lauter (Trinity College, Hartford, Connecticut) Shirley Lim (University of California, Santa Barbara) Judith Madera (Wake Forest University) Angel Mateos (University of Castilla- La Mancha) José David Saldivar (Stanford University) Silvia Schultermandl (University of Graz) Assistant Editors Amanda Gerke (Universidad de Salamanca) Paula Barba Guerrero (Universidad de Salamanca) Mónica Fernández (Universidad de Valladolid) volume 8 The titles published in this series are listed at brill.com/ aeal Latinidad at the Crossroads Insights into Latinx Identity in the Twenty- First Century Edited by Amanda Ellen Gerke Luisa María González Rodríguez LEIDEN | BOSTON Cover illustration: © Carlos Fortes García. Printed with permission of the author. The Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data is available online at http:// catalog.loc.gov LC record available at http:// lccn.loc.gov/2021007385 Typeface for the Latin, Greek, and Cyrillic scripts: “Brill”. See and download: brill.com/b rill- typeface. issn 1871- 6067 isbn 978- 90- 04- 46036- 2 (hardback) isbn 978- 90- 04- 46043- 0 (e- book) Copyright 2021 by Koninklijke Brill nv, Leiden, The Netherlands. Koninklijke Brill nv incorporates the imprints Brill, Brill Hes & De Graaf, Brill Nijhoff, Brill Rodopi, Brill Sense, Hotei Publishing, mentis Verlag, Verlag Ferdinand Schöningh and Wilhelm Fink Verlag. All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, translated, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior written permission from the publisher. Requests for re- use and/ or translations must be addressed to Koninklijke Brill nv via brill.com or copyright.com. This book is printed on acid- free paper and produced in a sustainable manner. Amanda dedicates this book to Patrick Luisa dedicates this book to Carlos, Irene and Daniel ∵ Contents Acknowledgments ix Notes on Contributors x Puerto Rican Discovery #3: Not Neither xii Introduction Revisiting Latinidad in the 21st Century 1 Amanda Ellen Gerke and Luisa María González Rodríguez Seismic Shifts in Chicano/ a Literature Leading into the Twenty- First Century Are Latinos/ as Now Coasting Or Still Breaking New Ground? 24 Francisco A. Lomelí Digging through the Past to Reconcile Race and Latinx Identity in Dominican- American Women’s Memoirs 46 Luisa María González Rodríguez Dominicans and the Political Realm of Latinidad in New York City 66 Fernando Aquino Identity, De- colonization and Cosmopolitanism in (Afro)Latina Artists’ Spoken Word Performances 84 Esther Álvarez López Encarnaciones Cubanas Elías Miguel Muñoz and Queering of the Latina/ o Canon 108 Ylce Irizarry Revisiting La Frontera Consuelo Jiménez Underwood and Ana Teresa Fernández 135 Ewa Antoszek Borders and Immigration Revisiting Canonical Chicano Literature under Trump’s Regime 152 José Antonio Gurpegui viii Contents C onclusions 171 Amanda Ellen Gerke and Luisa María González Rodríguez I ndex 179 Acknowledgments This book was made possible by many individuals, groups, and organizations, to whom we owe our deepest thanks. First and foremost, we would like to thank the series editors, Ana María Manzanas Calvo and Jesús Benito Sánchez. Their time, patience, editing, advice and support have (always) been invalu- able. We are also deeply grateful for their friendship, mentorship, and encour- agement in all of our endeavors. We also wish to thank all of the contributors for their patience and enthusiasm for a project that will offer new insights into the notion of latinidad. We also thank Paula Barba for her assistance in this publication as well as Gwyn Fox, who is a master copy- editor and has a unique talent of creating a unified voice among many authors. Amanda would like to thank Clara Keating and Isabel Caldeira at the University of Coimbra for allowing space, time, and encouragement to write in peace, and for their warm welcome to beautiful Portugal. She would also like to thank Kristie Knockleby who accompanied her to Coimbra and took care of her infant twins while she was writing and editing. She also thanks her three children, Laszlo, Gabriel, and Nicolás who bring her joy, hope, and the deepest love. Without them, her life would not be complete. And most importantly, she would also like to thank her husband, Patrick, who has always supported her personally and in her career. He sacrifices so much for her and for their family, and her dreams and success would not be possible without his love and support. Luisa would like to give special recognition to Viorica Patea, a dearest friend and colleague, for her continuous support and intellectual guidance through- out her academic journey. She would also like to thank her husband, Carlos, and her children, Irene and Daniel, for their patience, support and uncondi- tional love. This work has been supported by the Spanish Ministry for Science and Innovation through the research project “Critical History of Ethnic American Literature: An Intercultural Approach” Ref. PID2019-1 08754GB- 100, and the Erasmus+ project “Hospitality in European Film” Ref. No. 2017- 1- ES01- KA203- 038181. Notes on Contributors Esther Álvarez López Ph.D. (1989), is Associate Professor in American Literature at the University of Oviedo (Spain). She has published on ethnic literatures, gender and inter- sectionality, including Diasporic Women’s Writing of the Black Atlantic. (En) Gendering Literature and Performance (co- editor, Routledge, 2015). Ewa Antoszek Ph.D. (2010), is Assistant Professor at Maria- Curie Skłodowska University (Poland). Her current research examines Latinx authors and artists (re)writ- ing the border. She is the author of Out of the Margins: Identity Formation in Contemporary Chicana Writings (Peter Lang, 2012). Fernando Aquino is a Ph.D. candidate in Political Science at the cuny Graduate Center. He teaches courses on American Government, The Immigrant Experience and Civil Rights at Lehman College, cuny. His publications include “Immigrants and Transnational Citizenship” (2017) in Metro politics.eu. Amanda Ellen Gerke Ph.D. (2016), is Assistant Professor at the University of Salamanca. She has published articles, chapters and edited volumes on on discourse analysis, soci- olinguistic approaches to discourse and literature, semiotic theory, and cul- tural studies, including The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality (Brill, 2020). Luisa María González Rodríguez Ph.D. (2005) is Associate Professor at the University of Salamanca, where she combines research on literature and linguistics. She has published on the politics and aesthetics of postmodern short fiction and on ethnic literatures, including the chapter “Latino Immigrants at the Threshold: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Hospitality in US Barriocentric Narratives” (Brill, 2020). José Antonio Gurpegui Ph.D. (1958), Universidad de Alcalá (Spain), is a Professor of American Studies. He was Visiting Scholar at Harvard University and is the President of HispaUSA (Association for the Dialogue and Study of Hispanics Cultures in the United States).
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