The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature [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. In this first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship between art, politics, and the market.Sell Outs? Politics and the Market in Post-Sixties Latino/a Literature Periodizing Latino/a Literature Through Pedro Pietri's Nuyorican Cityscapes Mercado Dreams: The End(s) of Sixties Nostalgia in Contemporary Ghetto Fiction Movin' on Up and Out: Engaging Lowercase Latino/a Conversations with Junot Diaz and Angie Cruz Latino/a Identity and Consumer Citizenship in Christina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban Wrtiting in a Minor Key: Postcolonial and Post-Civil Rights Histories in the Novels of Julia Alvarez

Raphael Dalleo and Elena Machado S?ez are to be commended on their compelling study of the complex relationship between the Civil Rights and post-Sixties eras of Latino/a-Caribbean literature, politics, and the market. The consideration of the challenges that face Cuban-Americans in their literary and artistic production is particularly timely, as well as their conception of a space for politically engaged, marketable literature in the twenty-first century. For these reasons, among others, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature is worthy of attention and merits scholarly study. - Camino Real

Especially because of the timeliness of its arguments, but also because of the breadth and depth of its study and argumentation, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature will be an important text for scholars and students of Latino(a) literature. One can already see how Dalleo and Machado Saez's book could well occasion a lively discussion of the next steps in the formation and cultivation of a Latino(a) canolÓ3