
Latino Dreams
Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary
Paul Allatson(Author)
Rodopi (Publisher)
Published on 1. January 2002
Book
Paperback/Softback
367 pages
978-90-420-0804-5 (ISBN)
Description
A welcome addition to the fields of Latino and (trans-)American cultural and literary studies, Latino Dreams focuses on a selection of Latino narratives, published between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, that may be said to traffic in the U.S.A.'s attendant myths and governing cultural logics. The selection includes novels by authors who have received little academic attention-Abraham Rodriguez, Achy Obejas, and Benjamin Alire Saenz-along with underattended texts from more renowned writers-Rosario Ferre, Coco Fusco, and Guillermo Gomez-Pena. Latino Dreams takes a transcultural approach in order to raise questions of subaltern subordination and domination, and the resistant capacities of cultural production. The analysis explores how the selected narratives deploy specific narrative tactics, and a range of literary and other cultural capital, in order to question and reform the U.S.A.'s imaginary coordinates. In these texts, moreover, national imperatives are complicated by recourse to feminist, queer, panethnic, postcolonial, or transnational agendas. Yet the analysis also recognizes instances in which the counter-narrative will is frustrated: the narratives may provide signs of the U.S.A.'s hegemonic resilience in the face of imaginary disavowal.
Reviews / Votes
"...excellent monograph [...] this is an important critical contribution to Latino studies." - in: Chascevi, Revista de literatura latinoamericana, Vol. 33, No. 2 (Nov. 2004)"...meticulous yet imaginative." - in: American Literature, Vol. 76, No. 4 (Dec. 2004)
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Series
Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
Paperback (trade)
Unsewn / adhesive bound
Dimensions
Height: 220 mm
Width: 150 mm
Weight
626 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0804-5 (9789042008045)
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Content
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. The transcultural contours of Latino U.S.A.
Chapter 2. Rosario Ferre's trans-"American" fantasy, or subalternizing the self
Chapter 3. Abraham Rodriguez's boy-zone romance of "American" escape
Chapter 4. Cuban memory, "American" mobility, and Achy Obejas's lesbian way
Chapter 5. Coming out of the "American" nightmare with Benjamin Alire Saenz
Chapter 6. Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and "American" cannibal reveries
7. Afterword: Notes on transcultural traffic from across el charco pacifico
Bibliography
Index
Introduction
Chapter 1. The transcultural contours of Latino U.S.A.
Chapter 2. Rosario Ferre's trans-"American" fantasy, or subalternizing the self
Chapter 3. Abraham Rodriguez's boy-zone romance of "American" escape
Chapter 4. Cuban memory, "American" mobility, and Achy Obejas's lesbian way
Chapter 5. Coming out of the "American" nightmare with Benjamin Alire Saenz
Chapter 6. Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and "American" cannibal reveries
7. Afterword: Notes on transcultural traffic from across el charco pacifico
Bibliography
Index