Ortiz Latinx Literature Now

Between Evanescence and Event
1. Auflage 2019
ISBN: 978-3-030-04708-5
Verlag: Springer International Publishing
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 100 Seiten, eBook

Reihe: Literatures of the Americas

Latinx Literature Now engages with a diverse collection of works in Latinx literary studies, critical theory, and the philosophy of history, as well as a wide range of Latinx literary texts, in order to offer readers an alternative model of how Latinx literary scholarship and Latinx literary criticism might go about doing their work. It encourages practitioners in the field to reflect on literature and latinidad together as both parallel and intersecting historical-cultural formations, and to assess from that reflection how literary works might uniquely condition and depict latinidad as something other than a fixed, stable category of identity, as instead an ongoing process of becoming, one always capable of promise, but also always vulnerable to risk, threat, precarity and even disappearance: that is, as always more prone to the performative flash of an evanescence than to the ontological solidity of an event.

Zielgruppe

Research

Autoren/Hrsg.

Ortiz, Ricardo L.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction.- 1. The Trouble(s) With Unity.- 2. Reiterating Performatives.- 3. Archive and Diaspora.- 4. Against Against Literature .- 5. The Testimonial Imagination.- 6. Un-Homey States.- 7. (Latinx) Literature’s Work.

Über Autor(innen)

Ricardo L. Ortiz is Associate Professor of Latinx Literature and Culture at Georgetown University, USA.