Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886
Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444–1886
Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela, King's College London
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USDThis volume illuminates and gives voice to actors, objects, events, and processes from the early 1400s to the late 1800s and thinks about how they may relate to Latinx expressive literatures and cultures, challenging common paradigms that think of the field as resolutely modern. Drawing on a diverse range of expertise from scholars from around the globe and examining objects ranging from chronicles, histories, letters, journalism, poetry, talismans, performances, and comix, the volume engages with counternarratives and multifaceted contexts that address intersections of race, gender, class, and other social and political locations. The volume significantly contributes to methodological debates around Latina/o/x studies, offering in-depth and multiple explorations of how to imagine the field's complex evolution. It is an indispensable resource for those seeking to broaden their scholarly understanding of Latinx identity and literature, providing fresh insights and critical perspectives that will enrich academic discussions and research in this field.
- Contributes to and advances the academic discourse in the field of Latinx studies by travelling backwards in time to periods not usually considered by the field, thus diversifying and complicating the origin stories of Latinx literature, moving beyond Eurocentric notions of time and place
- Challenges assumptions about Latinx literature and identity by taking a historical perspective, uncovering marginalized voices, and exploring diverse eras, geographies, cultures, and worldviews to trace their role in shaping Latinx literary form and expression
- Expands the definition of 'literature' to go beyond the textual, encouraging exploration of alternative cultural forms and revitalising Latinx interpretative and methodological frameworks
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July 2025Hardback
9781009313995
492 pages
229 × 152 mm
0.9kg
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Table of Contents
- Part I. Transacting: Archives and the (Un)ma(r)king of Difference:
- 1. Archiving Indians/Indios and fabricating Whites: colonial Spanish-American 'antiquities' and late eighteenth-century elites in Philadelphia Ruth Hill
- 2. Forever present and silent no more: early Sephardic voices in the Spanish North American Atlantic Emily Colbert-Cairns
- 3. Talismanic fragments of the Muslim Atlantic: the Malê revolt of 1835 Zeinab Mcheimech
- 4. The mid nineteenth-century press and periodical poetry: Francisco P. RamÃrez's Borderlands Anthology Ayendy Bonifacio
- Part II. Transcending: Narrative and Counternarratives:
- 5. La Llorona's ghosts: losses and omens in colonial and contemporary texts Matthew Goldmark
- 6. From Mary Rowlandson to Lola Medina: rethinking the captivity narrative genre Nicole Eitzen Delgado
- 7. Early Latinx formation in Inca Garcilaso: Spanish encounters with the Lady of Cofachiqui Thomas Ward
- 8. 'Tragic time': an unromantic re-reading of nineteenth-century Cuban history Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller
- Part III. Transgressing: Beyond Empire, Nation, or Race:
- 9. When words are not enough: José MartÃ, race, and writing/righting the imagined nation Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez
- 10. The First Filipino and the Archive: Introducing Rizal in colonial Latinx studies Ernest Rafael Hartwell
- 11. Anarchist Media, Cuba's War for Independence, and the Forging of a Radical Transnational Latinidad, 1880s–1890s Kirwin Shaffer
- 12. Creole patriotism and the colonial archive: Francisco de Florencia and the early Florida frontier Jason Dyck
- Part IV. Transcreating: Texts, Subtexts and Creative Anachronism:
- 13. Spanish Baroque theater and the transatlantic: Bartolomé de Alva's Nahuatl transcreation of El animal profeta y dichoso patricida José Estrada
- 14. The epistemic disobedience of Latinx Shakespeares Carla Della Gatta
- 15. The strange case of a 'lost' dramatic performance: early Californio literary culture and Anglo-American historiographic censoring Pedro GarcÃa-Caro
- 16. Mars is Oggún: African-Cuban spirituality and the divine masculine in the poetry of Plácido Matthew Pettway
- 17. Drawing the Latinx migrant subject: From Guaman Poma via Cornejo Polar to MartÃn López Lam's Las edades de la rata (2019) Andrea Aramburú
