Description
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 writers' 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.
Author: Jill Toliver Richardson
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: 09/28/2016
Pages: 170
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 0.74lbs
Size: 8.64h x 6.06w x 0.60d
ISBN13: 9783319319209
ISBN10: 3319319205
BISAC Categories:
- Social Science | Ethnic Studies | American | African American & Black Studies
- Literary Criticism | American | General
- Literary Criticism | Modern | General
About the Author
Jill Toliver Richardson is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), USA where she teaches Contemporary Urban Writers and Latina/o Literature and composition. She was a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship and has previously published in the journals Label Me Latina/o and CENTRO.