| Contents |
Between cultures and canons -- Laughing the demons away: Piri Thomas and the Black aesthetic -- From bohemian Piolo to leftist Jorocón: the pan-African radicalization of Carlos Moore -- Morenophilia/Morenophobia: Marta Moreno Vega, Afro-Caribbean religion, and ethnic intermarriage -- Post-soul Latinidad: Black nationalism in the memoirs of Veronica Chambers and Raquel Cepeda -- Literary nationalism, postrace aesthetics, and comparative Latino literary studies. |
| Abstract |
"Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement. Masiki shows how Afro-Latino memoir writers often turn to the African American experience as a model for articulating their Afro-Latinidad. African American literary production, expressive culture, political ideology, and religiosity shaped Afro-Latino subjectivity more profoundly than typically imagined between the post-war and post-soul eras"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | ebook version : 9781469675299 |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| LCCN | 2023004226 |
| ISBN | 9781469675268 hardcover |
| ISBN | 1469675269 hardcover |
| ISBN | 9781469675275 paperback |
| ISBN | 1469675277 paperback |
| ISBN | electronic book |
| ISBN | electronic book |
