Search results for ""Author Assistant Professor Renee Hudson""
Fordham University Press Latinx Revolutionary Horizons
A necessary reconceptualization of Latinx identity, literature, and politicsIn Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution. Rather than viewing Latinx as solely a category of identification, she argues for an expansive, historicized sense of the term that illuminates its political potential.Claiming the x in Latinx as marking the suspension and tension between how Latin American descended people identify and the future politics the x points us toward, Hudson contends that latinidad can signal a politics grounded in shared struggles and histories rather than merely a mode of identification. In this way, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons reads against current calls for cancelling latinidad based on its presumed anti-Black and anti-Indigenous framework. Instead, she examines the not-yet-h
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