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02927aam a2200409Ii 4500 001 9D86663EE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20170203020341 008 160301t20162016sz b 001 0 eng d 010 $a 2016952793 020 $a 3319319205 020 $a 9783319319209 035 $a (OCoLC)942381083 040 $a YDXCP $b eng $e rda $c YDXCP $d BTCTA $d OCLCQ $d OHX $d YDX $d NYP $d NKM $d CLU $d SUC $d SILO 043 $a n-us--- 050 4 $a PN56 I42 R53 2016 100 1 $a Richardson, Jill Toliver, $e author. 245 10 $a Afro-Latin@ experience in contemporary American literature and culture : $b engaging blackness / $c Jill Toliver Richardson. 246 31 $a Afro-Latino experience in contemporary American literature and culture 246 31 $a Afro-Latina experience in contemporary American literature and culture 264 1 $a [Cham] : $b Palgrave Macmillan, $c [2016] 300 $a x, 170 pages ; $c 22 cm 490 1 $a Afro-Latin@ diasporas 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index. 505 0 $a Introduction -- Chapter One: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot Diaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao -- Chapter Two:Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican WomenÌs Identity in Loida Maritza PerezÌs Geographies of Home -- Chapter Three:ÌBoricua, MorenoÌ: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie CruzÌs Soledad and Nelly RosarioÌs Song of the Water Saints -- Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. CarrilloÌs Loosing My Espanish -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad. . 520 $a This book examines 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 writersÌ 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. . 650 0 $a Group identity in literature. 650 0 $a African Americans $x In literature. $x In literature. 650 0 $a Hispanic Americans $x In literature. $x In literature. 650 0 $a American literature $x Themes, motives. $x Themes, motives. 650 0 $a American literature $x Themes, motives. $x Themes, motives. 830 0 $a Afro-Latin@ diasporas. 941 $a 2 952 $l USUX851 $d 20190305055927.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180111041736.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=9D86663EE9E711E69A6025A3DAD10320 994 $a C0 $b IWAInitiate Another SILO Locator Search