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Author:

Quesada, Sarah, 1984- author.

Title:

The African heritage of Latinx and Caribbean literature / Sarah M. Quesada.

Publisher:

Cambridge University Press,

Copyright Date:

2022

Description:

xii, 290 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Subject:

1900-2099
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
American literature--African influences.
American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
American literature--21st century--History and criticism.
Transnationalism in literature.
Group identity in literature.
American literature.
American literature--African influences.
American literature--Caribbean American authors.
American literature--Hispanic American authors.
Group identity in literature.
Literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
Africa--In literature.
Africa.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Literary criticism.
Literary criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction: Textual memorials of a Latin-African literature -- Fear: Junot Díaz's zombies and les contorsions extraordinaires in "Monstro" -- Commodification: Black internationalism and the African safari of Achy Obejas's Ruins -- Obliteration: Gabriel García Márquez and his Angolan chronicles of a "Latin-African" death foretold -- Archival distortion: the Chicano Congo of Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya.

Summary:

"The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World Literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa's impact in broader Latin American culture. Sarah Quesada argues that these canonical works evoke textual memorials of African memory. She shows how the African Atlantic haunts modern Latinx and Carribbean writing, and examines the disavowal or distortion of the African subject in the constructions of national, racial, sexual, and spiritual Latinx identity. Queseda shows how themes such as the 19th century "scramble for Africa," the decolonizing wars, Black internationalism, and the neoliberal turn are embedded in key narratives. Drawing from multilingual archives about West and Central Africa, she examines how the legacies of colonial French, Iberian, British and U.S. Imperialisms have impacted on the relationships between African and Latinx identities. This is the first book-length project to address the African colonial and imperial inheritance of Latinx literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Series:

Cambridge studies in world literature

ISBN:

1316514358
9781316514351

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1291172698

LCCN:

2022004697

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)