Dialectical imaginaries : materialist approaches to U.S. Latino/a literature in the age of neoliberalism / Marcial González and Carlos Gallego, editors.
Introduction : reading U.S. Latino/a literature through capitalism and vice versa / Carlos Gallego and Marcial González -- Marxism, materialism, and Latino/a literature : what is at stake? / Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita -- When the union movement was murdered in America : neoliberalism and the political economy of class war in Alfredo Véa's Gods go begging / Dennis López -- Quarantine citizen : Latinx poetry and the matter of capital / Michael Dowdy -- Historical materialism, the decolonial imaginary, and Chicana feminist theories in the flesh / Marcelle Maese-Cohen -- A world out of whack : criminal (in)justice and financial capitalism in Sergio de la Pava's A naked singularity / R. Andrés Guzmán -- Pornocapitalism and the translucent borders of social identity in deck of deeds / Carlos Gallego -- Bodega sold dreams : middle-class panic and the cross-over aesthetics of in the heights / Elena Machado Sáez -- The dialectics of presence and futurity in the contemporary U.S. Latino/a novel / Mathias Nilges -- Crisis and migration in posthegemonic times : primitive accumulation and labor in La Bestia / Abraham Acosta -- A Chicana dystopian novel and the economic realities of their dogs came with them / Edén Torres -- Mass incarceration and the critique of capitalism: a working-class viewpoint in Ronald Ruiz's Happy birthday Jesús / Marcial González.
Summary:
"Dialectical Imaginaries brings together essays that analyze the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of U.S. Latino/a literature. The editors argue that recent global events have compelled contemporary scholars to reexamine traditional interpretive models that center on identity politics and an ethics of multiculturalism. The volume seeks to demonstrate that materialist methodologies have a greater critical reach than other methods, and that Latino/a literary criticism should be more attuned to interpretive approaches that draw on Marxism and other globalizing social theories. The contributors analyze a wide range of literary works in fiction, poetry, drama, and memoir by writers including Rudolfo Anaya, Gloria Anzaldúa, Daniel Borzutzky, Angie Cruz, Sergio de la Pava, Mónica de la Torre, Sergio Elizondo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rolando Hinojosa, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Óscar Martínez, Cherríe Moraga, Urayoán Noel, Emma Pérez, Pedro Pietri, Miguel Piñero, Ernesto Quiñónez, Ronald Ruiz, Hector Tobar, Rodrigo Toscano, Alfredo Véa, Helena María Viramontes, and others"-- Provided by publisher.
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