Includes bibliographical references (pages 179-221) and index.
Contents:
Between cultures and canons -- Laughing the demons away: Piri Thomas and the Black aesthetic -- From bohemian Piolo to leftist JorocoĢn: the pan-African radicalization of Carlos Moore -- Morenophilia/Morenophobia: Marta Moreno Vega, Afro-Caribbean religion, and ethnic intermarriage -- Post-soul Latinidad: Black nationalism in the memoirs of Veronica Chambers and Raquel Cepeda -- Literary nationalism, postrace aesthetics, and comparative Latino literary studies.
Summary:
"Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement. Masiki shows how Afro-Latino memoir writers often turn to the African American experience as a model for articulating their Afro-Latinidad. African American literary production, expressive culture, political ideology, and religiosity shaped Afro-Latino subjectivity more profoundly than typically imagined between the post-war and post-soul eras"-- Provided by publisher.
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