{"product_id":"buenas-noches-american-culture-latinao-aesthetics-of-night-9780253001894","title":"Buenas Noches American Culture  Latinao","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eExplores night and darkness in Latina \/o art and literature\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eDeGuzmán . . . offers new insights into how representations of night have been employed to form (impose) a Latino identity within and beyond the borders of the US. Juxtaposing historical illustrations with modern literary and artistic depictions of night from Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the US, she compellingly argues that there are new trends in representations of night used by Latino\/a writers and artists as a means of self-representation.\u003c\/p\u003e * Choice *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e[T]he multidisciplinary approach of this work allows DeGuzmán to reflect on the complexity and multiplicity of Latinidades in both content and method, successfully situating the volume in the broad, and often deliberately complex and nuanced, fields of Latina\/o Studies, American Studies, and Cultural Studies (to mention a few). Jan 2016\u003c\/p\u003e * Modern Language Review *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003ePreface\u003cbr\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Critically Inhabiting the Night\u003cbr\u003e1. Dreaded Non-Identitites of Night: Night and Shadow in Chicana\/o Cultural Production\u003cbr\u003e2. Queer \"Tropics\" of Night and the \u003ci\u003eCaribe \u003c\/i\u003eof \"American\" (Post) Modernism\u003cbr\u003e3. Postcolonial Pre-Coloumbian Cosmologies of Night in Contemporary U.S.-Based Central American Texts\u003cbr\u003e4. Transcultural Night Work of U.S.-Based South American Cultural Producers\u003cbr\u003eConclusion: \u003ci\u003eTwo Homelands Have I: \"America\" and the Night\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003eNotes\u003cbr\u003eBibliography\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49400528994647,"sku":"9780253001894","price":19.79,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780253001894.jpg?v=1730470904","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/buenas-noches-american-culture-latinao-aesthetics-of-night-9780253001894","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}