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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Other Authors: González, Marcial, 1953- (Editor), Gallego, Carlos, 1971- (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2018]
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.