Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-161) and index.
Contents:
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 Womeńs Identity in Loida Maritza Pereźs Geographies of Home -- Chapter Three:́Boricua, Morenó: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era -- Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruźs Soledad and Nelly Rosariós Song of the Water Saints -- Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillós Loosing My Espanish -- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad. .
Summary:
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 writerś 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. .
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