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
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
6 - Whither Latinidad?
The Trajectories of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o Literature
from Part II - The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
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
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
As an unstable term, latinidad requires a multiplicity of interpretations, given the many chronological and geographical sites of its enunciation, and the many racial, social, and cultural realities that abound in the movements from Latin America, the Caribbean, to other parts of the world. Focusing on José Martí’s “Nuestra América” from 1891, Justo Sierra’s En tierra yankee (notas a todo vapor) from 1895, and Rubén Darío’s “A Roosevelt” (published in 1905), this essay explores the question of latinidad as a collective opposition against forms of colonialism that were emerging in this pivotal moment in American hemispheric history. Studying these texts in their specificity enables further reflections on the limits and promises of bodies of work we have come to identify as belonging to national literary traditions, or to “Latina/o” or “Latin” American” textual bodies, while allowing us to retain a sense of the specific histories and geographies of a polyvalent latinidad.
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- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 139 - 156Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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