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Latinx Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latinx. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latinx.

Table of Contents

Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk About Latina/o Literature
Chapter 1: Brown Like Me?: The Author Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies
Chapter 2: Confounding the Mimetic: The Meta-Fictional Challenge to Representation
Chapter 3: From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story
Chapter 4: The Lyric, or, A Radical Singularity in Latina/o Verse
Conclusion: Thinking Beyond Limits

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      Publisher: Fordham University Press
      Publication Date: 08/05/2018
      ISBN13: 9780823279234, 978-0823279234
      ISBN10: 0823279235
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      Literature: history and criticism Ethnic studies / Ethnicity

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Latinx Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latinx. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latinx.

      Table of Contents

      Introduction: What We Talk about When We Talk About Latina/o Literature
      Chapter 1: Brown Like Me?: The Author Function, Proper Names, and the Rise of Fictional Nobodies
      Chapter 2: Confounding the Mimetic: The Meta-Fictional Challenge to Representation
      Chapter 3: From Where I Stand: The Intimacy and Distance of We and You in the Short Story
      Chapter 4: The Lyric, or, A Radical Singularity in Latina/o Verse
      Conclusion: Thinking Beyond Limits

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