Imagined Transnationalism: U.S. Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity [Hardcover]

With its focus on Latina/o communities in the United States, this collection of essays identifies and investigates the salient narrative and aesthetic strategies with which an individual or a collective represents transnational experiences and identities in literary and cultural texts.Introduction: Imagined Transnationalism: Refiguring Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity; K.Concannon, F.Lomel? ?& M.Priewe Chicano Transnation; B.Ashcroft A Schematic Approach to Understanding Latino Transnational Literary Texts; N.Kanellos Para Espa?ol Oprima el N?mero Dos: Trans-nationalism, Translation, and U.S. Latino/a Literature; M.S?nchez Transnational Migrations and Political Mobilizations: The Case of A Day Without a Mexican; M.Herrera-Sobek The Imagined Transnationalism of Gender-Based Violence at the Mexico-U.S. Border; C.Sadowski-Smith Precursors of Hemispheric Writing: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Early U.S.-American Identity; G.Pisarz-Ram?rez Slammin' in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Caf?; H.Zapf A Broader and Wiser Revolution: Refiguring Chicano Nationalist Politics in Latin American Consciousness in Post-Movement Chicana/o Literature; T.Libretti Oppositional Consciousness, Travel, and Ethics in Juan Felipe Herrera's Mayan Drifter; M.A.Oliver ?D?nde Est?s Vos/z ? Performing Salvadore?idades in Washington D.C.; A.P.Rodr?guez With Bertolt Brecht and the Aztecs Towards an Imagined Transnationalism: A Case Study at the Turn to the 3rd Millenniu; K.Ikas The Final Frontier: Imagining Latinos in Guillermo G?mez-Pe?a and Gustavo Vasquez's The Great Mojado Invasion (The 2nd US-Mexico War); C.Leen Writing the Haitian Diaspora: The Trans-National Contexts of Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker; R.L.Ort?z

This book comes at a crucial time of expansion of college and university interdisciplinary programs . . .The essays focus on a variety of important and current social, cultural, and artistic issues concerning the U.S. alc®