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Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel Hispanicism and Early US Literature: Spain, Mexico, Cuba, and the Origins of US National Identity Where the New World Is: Literature about the U.S. South at Global Scales

Jenna Grace Sciuto
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 609–612.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616307
Published: 01 September 2020
... somewhere: in the ‘here’ of Latina/o literature” (4). Jennifer Harford Vargas terms this continuum of domination “the Latina/o counter-dictatorial imaginary, which draws connections between authoritarianism, imperialism, white supremacy, heteropatriarchy, neoliberal capitalism, and border militarization...
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Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/O Aesthetics of Night Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies

Ralph E. Rodriguez
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 848–850.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329722
Published: 01 December 2015
... in common a troubling of the label Latina/o. That troubling forms the focus of Milian’s work and is a significant motif in DeGuzmán’s. DeGuzmán’s Buenas Noches, American Culture takes as its focus the aes- thetics of night in Latina/o literatures (and to a lesser degree, photography). Given...
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Hart Crane's Poetry Nobody's Business: Twenty-First Century Avant-Garde Poetics

Aldon Nielsen
American Literature (2015) 87 (4): 845–848.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-3329710
Published: 01 December 2015
...- thetics of night in Latina/o literatures (and to a lesser degree, photography). Given the ubiquity of night in Latina/o cultural production, it is surprising that DeGuzmán’s is the first comprehensive study of the subject. Her interest in the tropes of night and shadows (see also her fine first book...
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The Social Imperative: Race, Close Reading, and Contemporary Literary Criticism Race and the Literary Encounter: Black Literature from James Weldon Johnson to Percival Everett

Sonya Posmentier
American Literature (2017) 89 (4): 895–897.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4257952
Published: 01 December 2017
.... To bring the concept of schema from psychology into literary analysis, Moya offers examples of how readers bring schemas to books and how literature “embeds” schemas through form and structure (21). Moya’s method illustrates her claim that contemporary African American and Latina/o literature rewards...
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Lost Archives, Lost Lands: Rereading New Mexico’s Imagined Environments

Carlos Alonso Nugent
American Literature (2020) 92 (2): 309–341.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8267756
Published: 01 June 2020
... Hickey, Amy Hungerford, Albert Laguna, Andrew Lanham, Pedro Regalado, Randa Tawil, and Michael Warner. For attending presentations related to this work, I am grateful to colleagues at the 2018 American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, the 2018 Latina/o Studies Association Biennial...
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The Critical DREAMer Memoir: Educational Mobility and the Limits of Meritocratic Citizenship

Guadalupe Escobar
American Literature (2023) 95 (1): 29–58.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-10345351
Published: 01 March 2023
... Alternatives . Chicago : University of Illinois Press . Briggs Laura . 2020 . Taking Children: A History of American Terror . Oakland : University of California Press . Caminero-Santangelo Marta . 2018 . “ Undocumented Immigration in Latina/o Literature .” In The Cambridge History...
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Bildungsroman Hermeneutics in the Post–Civil Rights Era

Long Le-Khac
American Literature (2018) 90 (1): 141–170.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4326439
Published: 01 March 2018
... the bildungsroman (including the work of Maxine Hong Kingston and Gloria Naylor), Cisneros’s text can help us do so, if we can learn to read it otherwise. Copyright © 2018 by Duke University Press 2018 Sandra Cisneros Latina/o literature social mobility ethnic community protagonist A problem...
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Heroism and Comics Form: Feminist and Queer Speculations

Shelley Streeby
American Literature (2018) 90 (2): 449–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-4564382
Published: 01 June 2018
...: World-Making through Science Fiction and Activism (Univ. of California Press, 2017). Streeby has an essay on reading Jaime Hernandez’s comics as speculative fiction in Altermundos: Latina/o Literature, Film, and Popular Culture , and she is currently coediting Keywords for Comics Studies with Ramzi...
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Can You Tell by Looking? A Postvisible Definition of Asian American Literature

Sue-Im Lee
American Literature (2020) 92 (3): 543–569.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-8616187
Published: 01 September 2020
... The Cambridge History of Latina/o Literature holds up Ito Romo’s literary vision as being emblematic of the “post-nationalist period” of Latina/o literature; Ito Romo remarked, “I wanted to kill the abuelita. . . . I wanted to kill the tortilla stories” (quoted in Saldaña-Portillo 2018 : 739...
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Comparative Literary Studies of the Americas

Claire F. Fox
American Literature (2004) 76 (4): 871–886.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-76-4-871
Published: 01 December 2004
... to distinguish the ‘‘complex, mutable, and often sur- prising logics of domination, subordination, and resistance’’ that mark Latina(o) literary interactions with the United States (53). An author whose work is under consideration in Latino Dreams, Benjamin Alire Sáenz, assists Allatson in establishing...
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The Meaning of Rivers: Flow and Reflection in American Literature / Environmental Evasion: The Literary, Critical, and Cultural Politics of “Nature’s Nation.”

Nicole M. Merola
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 440–442.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587656
Published: 01 June 2012
... literature—except Native Ameri- can—as immigrant literature, Kanellos proposes a tripartite schema of native, immigrant, and exile to categorize important differences within the author- ship of Latina/o literatures. Defining “immigrant” specifically as the transmi- grant individual allows Kanellos...
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In Search of the Black Fantastic: Politics and Popular Culture in the Post–Civil Rights Era / Neo-Segregation Narratives: Jim Crow in Post–Civil Rights American Literature

Amy Abugo Ongiri
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 445–447.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587674
Published: 01 June 2012
... literature—except Native Ameri- can—as immigrant literature, Kanellos proposes a tripartite schema of native, immigrant, and exile to categorize important differences within the author- ship of Latina/o literatures. Defining “immigrant” specifically as the transmi- grant individual allows Kanellos...
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Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature / How to Be South Asian in America: Narratives of Ambivalence and Belonging / Writing the Ghetto: Class, Authorship, and the Asian American Ethnic Enclave

Jeehyun Lim
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 447–449.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587683
Published: 01 June 2012
... Native Ameri- can—as immigrant literature, Kanellos proposes a tripartite schema of native, immigrant, and exile to categorize important differences within the author- ship of Latina/o literatures. Defining “immigrant” specifically as the transmi- grant individual allows Kanellos to focus...
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Kin of Another Kind: Transracial Adoption in American Literature / Claiming Others: Transracial Adoption and National Belonging

Karen Dubinsky
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 452–454.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587701
Published: 01 June 2012
... Native Ameri- can—as immigrant literature, Kanellos proposes a tripartite schema of native, immigrant, and exile to categorize important differences within the author- ship of Latina/o literatures. Defining “immigrant” specifically as the transmi- grant individual allows Kanellos to focus...
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The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels / Secret Histories: Reading Twentieth-Century American Literature / The South That Wasn’t There: Postsouthern Memory and History

Timothy Parrish
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 454–456.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587710
Published: 01 June 2012
... Native Ameri- can—as immigrant literature, Kanellos proposes a tripartite schema of native, immigrant, and exile to categorize important differences within the author- ship of Latina/o literatures. Defining “immigrant” specifically as the transmi- grant individual allows Kanellos to focus...
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Deep Waters: The Textual Continuum in American Indian Literature / When Did Indians Become Straight? Kinship, the History of Sexuality, and Native Sovereignty

Audra Simpson
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 457–459.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587719
Published: 01 June 2012
... literature—except Native Ameri- can—as immigrant literature, Kanellos proposes a tripartite schema of native, immigrant, and exile to categorize important differences within the author- ship of Latina/o literatures. Defining “immigrant” specifically as the transmi- grant individual allows Kanellos...
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Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race, and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative / Hispanic Immigrant Literature: El Sueño del Retorno

John Morán González
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 459–461.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587728
Published: 01 June 2012
... literature—except Native Ameri- can—as immigrant literature, Kanellos proposes a tripartite schema of native, immigrant, and exile to categorize important differences within the author- ship of Latina/o literatures. Defining “immigrant” specifically as the transmi- grant individual allows Kanellos...
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An American Body/Politic: A Deleuzian Approach / American Spaces of Conversion: The Conductive Imaginaries of Edwards, Emerson, and James / Love’s Whipping Boy: Violence and Sentimentality in the American Imagination / Revolutionary Deists: Early America’s Rational Infidels

Arthur Riss
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 437–440.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587647
Published: 01 June 2012
... literature—except Native Ameri- can—as immigrant literature, Kanellos proposes a tripartite schema of native, immigrant, and exile to categorize important differences within the author- ship of Latina/o literatures. Defining “immigrant” specifically as the transmi- grant individual allows Kanellos...
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Women Writers of the American West, 1833–1927 / Lost Homelands: Ruin and Reconstruction in the Twentieth Century Southwest

Amy T. Hamilton
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 442–444.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587665
Published: 01 June 2012
... Native Ameri- can—as immigrant literature, Kanellos proposes a tripartite schema of native, immigrant, and exile to categorize important differences within the author- ship of Latina/o literatures. Defining “immigrant” specifically as the transmi- grant individual allows Kanellos to focus...
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Extravagant Abjection: Blackness, Power, and Sexuality in the African American Literary Imagination / Embodying Black Experience: Stillness, Critical Memory, and the Black Body

Suzanne Schneider
American Literature (2012) 84 (2): 450–452.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1215/00029831-1587692
Published: 01 June 2012
... literature—except Native Ameri- can—as immigrant literature, Kanellos proposes a tripartite schema of native, immigrant, and exile to categorize important differences within the author- ship of Latina/o literatures. Defining “immigrant” specifically as the transmi- grant individual allows Kanellos...
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