Dialectical imaginaries : materialist approaches to U.S. Latino/a literature in the age of neoliberalism /
Dialectical Imaginaries brings together essays that analyze the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of U.S. Latino/a literature. The editors argue that recent global events have compelled contemporary scholars to reexamine traditional interpretive models that cent...
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| Language: | English |
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Ann Arbor :
University of Michigan Press,
[2018]
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| Series: | Class, culture.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction : reading U.S. Latino/a literature through capitalism and vice versa / Carlos Gallego and Marcial González
- Marxism, materialism, and Latino/a literature : what is at stake? / Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita
- When the union movement was murdered in America : neoliberalism and the political economy of class war in Alfredo Véa's Gods go begging / Dennis López
- Quarantine citizen : Latinx poetry and the matter of capital / Michael Dowdy
- Historical materialism, the decolonial imaginary, and Chicana feminist theories in the flesh / Marcelle Maese-Cohen
- A world out of whack : criminal (in)justice and financial capitalism in Sergio de la Pava's A naked singularity / R. Andrés Guzmán
- Pornocapitalism and the translucent borders of social identity in deck of deeds / Carlos Gallego
- Bodega sold dreams : middle-class panic and the cross-over aesthetics of in the heights / Elena Machado Sáez
- The dialectics of presence and futurity in the contemporary U.S. Latino/a novel / Mathias Nilges
- Crisis and migration in posthegemonic times : primitive accumulation and labor in La Bestia / Abraham Acosta
- A Chicana dystopian novel and the economic realities of their dogs came with them / Edén Torres
- Mass incarceration and the critique of capitalism: a working-class viewpoint in Ronald Ruiz's Happy birthday Jesús / Marcial González.