The Other Latin@: Writing Against a Singular Identity
ISBN: 9780816528677 | 0816528675
Format: PaperbackPublisher: Univ of Arizona Pr
Pub. Date: 10/1/2011
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"The stereotype spells death to the imagination by shrinking all possibilities to one. Generalizations encourage us to stop considering what can be." --from the Introduction The sheer number of different ethnic groups and cultures in the United States makes it tempting to classify them according to broad stereotypes, ignoring their unique and changing identities. Because of their growing diversity within the United States, Latinas and Latinos face this problem in their everyday lives. With cultural roots in Mexico, Puerto Rico, Cuba, the Domini... MORE
| Foreword | p. vii |
| Acknowledgments | p. xi |
| Introduction | p. 1 |
| The Long Road Home | p. 9 |
| Latina Enough | p. 15 |
| Love, Prejudice, and Latinidad | p. 21 |
| Coyotes | p. 27 |
| A Latinidad Litmus Test | p. 33 |
| When We Were Spanish | p. 39 |
| My Word Hunger | p. 47 |
| Jotonovela | p. 53 |
| Island of Bone... MORE | p. 61 |
| Aesthetics and Theme: Time and Place(with an afterword on Polemics) | p. 69 |
| What We Write About When We Write About Gangs | p. 75 |
| Latte No! Notes on a (Late) Latino Awakening | p. 85 |
| p. 91 | |
| The Child in the House | p. 99 |
| A Meditation on the Experience and Aesthetics oú the Other Rican | p. 107 |
| Curative Poetics | p. 113 |
| Chola de los Hinterlands | p. 119 |
| My Emily Gore: Freudian Obsessions, Biculturalism, andAutobiographical Poetry | p. 123 |
| Fringe Poetics | p. 137 |
| La Página Roja | p. 137 |
| Afterword | p. 145 |
| Bibliography | p. 155 |
| About the Contributors | p. 157 |
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