Contemporary U.S. Latino/ A Literary Criticism [Hardcover]

Please note this is a 'Palgrave to Order' title (PTO). Stock of this book requires shipment from an overseas supplier. It will be delivered to you within 12 weeks. This is the first compilation of essays to bring together the most important U.S. Latino/a literary criticism of the last decade. This timely text has been long in coming as U.S. Latino/a literary criticism has grown exponentially throughout U.S universities since 1995.New Waves in U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism - L.Di Iorio Sand?n & R.Perez PART I: ARCHIVES, HISTORY, AND GENEALOGIES The Once and Future Latino: Notes Toward a Literary History todav?a para llegar - K. Silva Gruesz Latino U.S. Literature: A Bridge Between Two Centuries, Two Regions, and Two Cultures in Cristina Garc?a's The Ag?ero Sisters - W.Luis Out of the Margins: The 'Lost Generation' Writes Back - A.O'Reilly Herrera PART II: PRODUCTIONS OF SPACE, LABOR, AND THE LITERARY Oscar Hijuelos: Writer of Work - R.Lazo Mass Production of the Heartland: Cuban American Lesbian Camp in Achy Obejas's Wrecks - M.DeGuzman PART III: AFRO-LATINO/A POETICS Spirited Identities: Creole Religions, Ceole/U.S. Latina Literature, and the Initiated Reader - M.Fern?ndez Olmos Reading the Disfigured Face: Exteriorizing Blackness and Re/inscribing Latino Masculinity in Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets and Junot D?az's Drown - R.Perez Revisions of Ekphrasis and the Souvenir Collectible in Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints - V.Chevalier-Brooks PART IV: LATINO/A AFFECT As yet untitled essay - R.de la Campa Hystory and Literary Representation of the Puerto Rican Syndrome - L.Di Iorio Sand?n St. Miguelito: The Oulaw Poetic of Miguel Pi?ero - F.Negr?n Muntaner

This collection brings together an impressive group of established and young scholars to produce a multi-layered, theoretically complex approach to the practices of Latino/a criticism. These essays continue the dialogue about ambivalent identities and the usefulness (or lack thereof) oflÃ-