Imagined Transnationalism

U.S. Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity

K. Concannon, F. Lomelí, M. Priewe, K. Concannon, F. Lomelí, M. Priewe

• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
• Year: 2009
• Print ISBN:
  9780230606326
• eBook ISBN:
  9780230103320
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

With its focus on Latina/o communities in the United States, this collection of essays identifies and investigates the salient narrative and aesthetic strategies with which an individual or a collective represents transnational experiences and identities in literary and cultural texts.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title
• Copyright
• Figures and Tables
• Introduction
• 1 Chicano Transnation
• 2 A Schematic Approach to Understanding Latino Transnational Literary Texts
• 3 Para Español Oprima El Número Dos: Transnational Translation and U.S. Latino/a Literature
• 4 Transnational Migrations and Political Mobilizations: The Case of A Day without a Mexican
• 5 Imagining Transnational Chicano/a Activism against Gender-Based Violence at the U.S.-Mexican Border
• 6 Precursors of Hemispheric Writing: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Early U.S. American Identity
• 7 Slammin’ in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe
• 8 “A Broader and Wiser Revolution”: Refiguring Chicano Nationalist Politics in Latin American Consciousness in Post-Movement Literature
• 9 With Bertolt Brecht and the Aztecs Toward an Imagined Transnation: A Literary Case Study
• 10 Travel, Autoethnography, and Oppositional Consciousness in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Mayan Drifter
• 11 ¿Dónde estás vos/z?: Performing Salvadoreñidades in Washington, DC
• 12 The Final Frontier: Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s The Great Mojado Invasion
• 13 Writing the Haitian Diaspora: The Transnational Contexts of Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker
• Notes on Contributors
• Index