Against marginalization : convergences in Black and Latinx literatures /

"Analyzes the convergences of Black and Latinx literature-including works by Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdez, James Baldwin, Rudolfo Anaya, Ralph Ellison, Richard Rodriguez, Alice Walker, Helena María Viramontes, Edward P. Jones, and Junot Díaz-and how writers from both traditions fought against soci...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Fernandez, Jose O., 1976- (Author)
Format:	Book
Language:	English
Published:	Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022]
Subjects:	American literature > African American authors > History and criticism. American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism. Literature publishing > Social aspects > United States > History. Marginality, Social, in literature. American literature > African American authors. American literature > Hispanic American authors. Literature publishing > Social aspects. United States. Criticism, interpretation, etc. History.

Table of Contents:

Introduction: Contextualizing Black and Latinx literatures
Convergences in Black and Latinx literary histories through publishing: beginnings to 1970s
Imagining an independent nation: archetypal revolutionaries in the theater of Amiri Baraka and Luis Valdez
Fighting for one's country: World War II soldiers of color in the fiction of James Baldwin and Rudolfo Anaya
Arguing for inclusion: cultural identity and the literary tradition in the essays of Ralph Ellison and Richard Rodriguez
Struggles in the fields: communities of color in the narratives of Alice Walker and Helena María Viramontes
The decline of the city: naturalizing the Black and Latinx urban underclass in the short fiction of Edward P. Jones and Junot Díaz
Conclusion: Black and Latinx writers in the twenty-first century: the visibility of the few and the exclusion of the many.