Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- 22 Undocumented Immigration in Latina/o Literature
- 23 Latina Feminist Theory and Writing
- 24 Invisible No More
- 25 Latina/o Life Narratives
- 26 Poetics of the “Majority Minority”
- 27 The Quisqueya Diaspora
- 28 Listening to Literature
- 29 Brazuca Literature
- 30 Staging Latinidad and Interrogating Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latina/o Performance and Border Art
- 31 Trans-American Popular Forms of Latina/o Literature
- 32 Trauma, Translation, and Migration in the Crossfire of the Americas
- 33 The Mesoamerican Corridor, Central American Transits, and Latina/o Becomings
- 34 Differential Visions
- 35 Temporal Borderlands
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
31 - Trans-American Popular Forms of Latina/o Literature
Genre Fiction, Graphic Novels, and Digital Environments
from Part IV - Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- 22 Undocumented Immigration in Latina/o Literature
- 23 Latina Feminist Theory and Writing
- 24 Invisible No More
- 25 Latina/o Life Narratives
- 26 Poetics of the “Majority Minority”
- 27 The Quisqueya Diaspora
- 28 Listening to Literature
- 29 Brazuca Literature
- 30 Staging Latinidad and Interrogating Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latina/o Performance and Border Art
- 31 Trans-American Popular Forms of Latina/o Literature
- 32 Trauma, Translation, and Migration in the Crossfire of the Americas
- 33 The Mesoamerican Corridor, Central American Transits, and Latina/o Becomings
- 34 Differential Visions
- 35 Temporal Borderlands
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter examines the explosion of writing by Latinas and Latinos in such popular genres as chica lit, detective fiction, science fiction, and horror, as well as cultural production in graphic and digital media. Straddling the border of literary and commodity cultures, these works are important sites where Latina/o writers are re-imagining the concepts and paradigms that govern Latina/o representation. In particular, these popular forms are flashpoints where the Global North and Global South meet, resulting, on the one hand, in post-realist genres that respond rapidly to the neoliberal transformations that impact Latina/o communities, and, on the other, in hybrids that combine the conventions associated with these genres in U.S. and Latin American contexts. The chapter concludes by examining comic art and digital media that bring the literary together with the aesthetic possibilities of graphics, video, and audio to catalyze new communities of collaboration across national boundaries.
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- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 636 - 656Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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