Latinx Writing Los Angeles (eBook, ePUB)

Nonfiction Dispatches from a Decolonial Rebellion
Redaktion: Lopez-Calvo, Ignacio

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

2020 International Latino Book Awards Honorable Mention in Best Nonfiction (Multi-Author)Latinx Writing Los Angeles offers a critical anthology of Los Angeles's most significant English-language and Spanish-language (in translation) nonfiction writing from the city's inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and writers such as Harry Gamboa Jr., Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Rubén Martínez, focus on the ways in which Latinx Los Angeles's nonfiction narratives record the progressive racialization and subalternization of Latinxs in the southwestern United States. While notions of racial memory, coloniality, biopolitics, internal colonialism, cultural assimilation, Mexican or pan-Latinx cultural nationalism, and transnationalism permeate this anthology, contributors advocate the idea of a contested modernity that refuses to accept mainstream cultural impositions, proposing instead alternative ways of knowing and understanding. Featuring a wide variety of voices as well as a diversity of subgenres, this collection is the first to illuminate divergent, hybrid Latinx histories and cultures. Redefining Los Angeles's literary history and providing a new model for English, Spanish, and Latinx studies, Latinx Writing Los Angeles is an essential contribution to southwestern and borderland studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Nebraska
• Seitenzahl: 228
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. April 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781496206152
• Artikelnr.: 52483042

Autorenporträt

Ignacio López-Calvo is a professor of literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author or editor of numerous books, including The Affinity of the Eye: Writing Nikkei in Peru and Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction: The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety. Victor Valle is a professor emeritus of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. A former journalist for the Los Angeles Times, Valle earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 with fellow journalists. He is the author of several books, including Latino Metropolis and City of Industry: Genealogies of Power in Southern California.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments    
LA’s Latina/o Phantom Nonfiction and the Technologies of Literary Secrecy  
 
Victor Valle
Decolonizing Latina/o Nonfiction in LA’s Writing    
Ignacio López-Calvo and Victor Valle
Selections
1. “With the Amicable People of Ensenada de Palmas”: Excerpt from Breve
relación de la nueva entrada al sur, en la copiosa gentilidad de la nación
de los coras . . . , por el padre    
Ignacio María Napoli, S.J.
2. The Public Outcry. Noteworthy Pamphlet    
Francisco Ramírez
3. The Repercussions of a Lynching     
Ricardo Flores Magón
4. To Womankind, a Manifesto     
Blanca de Moncaleano
5. Excerpt from “The Memoirs of Alfredo Cobos”    
Alfredo Cobos
6. Excerpts from The Journals of Anaïs Nin    
Anaïs Nin
7. Bert Corona’s “Struggle Is the Ultimate Teacher”     
Jesús Mena
8. Beach Blanket Baja     
Helena María Viramontes
9. “The ‘Good Old Mission Days’ Never Existed”: Excerpt from The Medicine
of Memory: A Mexica Clan in California    
Alejandro Murguía
10. Light at the End of Tunnel Vision: In Memory of Gerardo Velázquez and
Ray Navarro     
Harry Gamboa Jr.
11. “Deported to the North”: Excerpt from Dangerous Border Crossings: The
Artist Talks Back    
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
12. Lights     
Nylsa Martínez
13. Movie Version: “Hell to Eternity”     
Sesshu Foster
14. Americanismo: City of Peasants, Los Angeles, California     
Héctor Tobar
15. “The Boy Left Behind”: Excerpt from Enrique’s Journey    
Sonia Nazario
16. My Father’s House     
Rubén Martínez
Source Acknowledgments    
Notes    
Bibliography