The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Villaseñor, Maria Joaquina; Fernández, Christine J.

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This volume provides an in-depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study of a variety of key Latinx life writers, genres, and thematic concerns.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 424
• Erscheinungstermin: 23. Mai 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781040018996
• Artikelnr.: 70385885

Autorenporträt

Maria Joaquina Villaseñor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at Sierra College. Previously she was a Professor of Chicanx/Latinx Studies in the Department of Humanities and Communication and co-founder of the Ethnic Studies Working Group at California State University, Monterey Bay. Villaseñor is the co-editor of Latinx Experiences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2023), a co-author of The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature (2017); a Latina life writer herself, her personal essays have been published in journals including The Acentos Review. Dr. Villaseñor's family is from Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico. She is a twin, a mother of twins, and a lifelong Californian. Christine J. Fernández is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at California State University, Monterey Bay. Her scholarship focuses on Hemispheric connections between Latin America and the United States and its intersections with gender studies and life writing. Her work has been published in journals such as eHumanista, Studies on Latin American Popular Culture, and Hispania.

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Introduction



Maria Joaquina Villaseñor



PART 1: Historical Approaches and Memory in Latinx Life Writing

1 "A Race Equal To, If Not Better Than, Theirs": 19th CenturyCalifornio Testimonios



Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz



2 With a Pencil in Their Hand: The Corrido as Life Writing



Ric Alviso



3 "I Will Never Deny What I am": Masculinity in Oral Life Stories with Latine Vietnam Veterans



Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr.



4 Fictional and Nonfictional Memory: Exploring the Liminal Spaces of History and Memory in Latinx Life Writing

Daniel Luis Archer

5 Genealogies in 21st Century Latina Life Writing: Memory, History, and Storytelling



Jennifer Geraci



PART II: Migration, Exile and Borders in Latinx Life Writing

6 Cartographies of Hispanic and Latinx Travel Writing: Discourses of Origins, Nations, and Exploration



Christine J. Fernández



7 Women's Auto/biography in the Mexico United States Borderscape, 1942-968: Elisa M. del Valle, Celia Trevino Carranza, and Consuelo Pena de Villarreal Elizondo



Paulo Alvarado



8 Latina/o/x Autobiographical Narratives of Exile: Examples from Cuba and Chile



Lucía M. Suárez



9 Latinx Life Writers of South American Origin or Heritage



Cynthia Martínez



10 Coming Out as Undocumented Through Personal Narrative, 2006-2016



Leah Butterfield



PART III: Chicana/Latina Feminisms and Life Writing

11 How Latina Theater Found a Voice



Leigh Johnson



12 Chicana Feminist Life Writing: Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and Necessary Transgressions of Genre



R. Joyce Z. L. Garay



13 Undisciplining Academia through Feminista Testimonio Writing



Rebeca Burciaga, Dolores Delgado Bernal, C. Alejandra Elenes, and Judith Flores Carmona



14 Chicanx and Latinx Feminist Testimonios

Ana Roncero Bellido

15 ¿Y Yo Tambien?: Sexual Assault Narratives in Chicana Memoirs



Melissa Castillo Planas



PART IV: Inscribing Race, Gender and Sexuality in Latinx Life Writing

16 Writing from the Wound: Contemporary Latinx Writing as Racial Identity in Process



Dominique Aurilla Vargas



17 The Afro Latino Memoir



Trent Masiki



18 Mapping Motherhood, Parenting, and Queer Care as Rebirth in Chicana/Latina Life Writing



Marivel T. Danielson



19 LGBTQ+ Latinx Poetry as Life Writing



Edward A. Chamberlain



20 Disidentifications: New York City as Space for (Dis)Encounters in Latinx Queer Literature



José Acosta Seda



21 From Grindr Advice Column to Memoir: Latinx Life Writing Online and the Queer Latinx Care Work of John Paul Brammer's "!Hola Papi!" Series



Jennifer M. Lozano and Katie R. Peel



PART V: Latinx Life Writing: Signature Themes and Genres

22 Vulnerability: Finding a Latinx Approach to Life Writing



Ruth Behar



23 Automitografia: Empowerment and Cultural Resistance in Chicanx Life Writing



Juan Velasco



24 Transformative Testimony and Lamentation: Latinx Protest Poetry as a New World of Witnessing

Francisco E. Robles

25 Latinx Coming of Age Memoirs, 1961-2022



Regina Marie Mills



26 Latinx Life Writing in Comics and Graphic Novels



Samantha Ceballos