Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event

by Ricardo L. Ortiz

Overview

Latinx Literature Now engages with a diverse collection of works in Latinx literary studies, critical theory, and the philosophy of history, as well as a wide range of Latinx literary texts, in order to offer readers an alternative model of how Latinx literary scholarship and Latinx literary criticism might go about doing their work. It encourages practitioners in the field to reflect on literature and latinidad together as both parallel and intersecting historical-cultural formations, and to assess from that reflection how literary works might uniquely condition and depict latinidad as something other than a fixed, stable category of identity, as instead an ongoing process of becoming, one always capable of promise, but also always vulnerable to risk, threat, precarity and even disappearance: that is, as always more prone to the performative flash of an evanescence than to the ontological solidity of an event.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783030047078
Publisher:	Springer International Publishing
Publication date:	01/10/2019
Series:	Literatures of the Americas
Edition description:	1st ed. 2019
Pages:	100
Product dimensions:	5.83(w) x 8.27(h) x (d)

About the Author

Ricardo L. Ortiz is Associate Professor of Latinx Literature and Culture at Georgetown University, USA.

Table of Contents

Introduction.- 1. The Trouble(s) With Unity.- 2. Reiterating Performatives.- 3. Archive and Diaspora.- 4. Against Against Literature.- 5. The Testimonial Imagination.- 6. Un-Homey States.- 7. (Latinx) Literature’s Work.