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The African heritage of Latinx and Caribbean literature /

The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in world literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa's impact in broader Latin American culture. Sar...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Quesada, Sarah, 1984- (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, [2022].
Series:Cambridge studies in world literature.
Subjects:
American literature > African influences.
American literature > Caribbean American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism.
American literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
American literature > 21st century > History and criticism.
Group identity in literature.
Transnationalism in literature.
LITERARY CRITICISM / General.
Africa > In literature.
Table of Contents:
  • Fear: Junot Díaz's zombies and les contorsions extraordinaires in "Monstro"
  • Commodification: Badagry and the African safari of Achy Obejas's Ruins
  • Obliteration: Gabriel García Márquez and his Angolan chronicles of a "Latin-African" death foretold
  • Archival distortion: the Chicano-Congo Relación of Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya.