Latino Dreams : : Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary / / Paul Allatson.

• Superior document: Portada Hispánica ; 14
• VerfasserIn: Allatson, Paul,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden; , Boston : : BRILL,, 2002.
• Year of Publication: 2002
• Language: English
• Series: Portada Hispánica ; 14.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

A welcome addition to the fields of Latino and (trans-)American cultural and literary studies, Latino Dreams focuses on a selection of Latino narratives, published between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, that may be said to traffic in the U.S.A.'s attendant myths and governing cultural logics. The selection includes novels by authors who have received little academic attention-Abraham Rodriguez, Achy Obejas, and Benjamin Alire Sáenz-along with underattended texts from more renowned writers-Rosario Ferré, Coco Fusco, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Latino Dreams takes a transcultural approach in order to raise questions of subaltern subordination and domination, and the resistant capacities of cultural production. The analysis explores how the selected narratives deploy specific narrative tactics, and a range of literary and other cultural capital, in order to question and reform the U.S.A.'s imaginary coordinates. In these texts, moreover, national imperatives are complicated by recourse to feminist, queer, panethnic, postcolonial, or transnational agendas. Yet the analysis also recognizes instances in which the counter-narrative will is frustrated: the narratives may provide signs of the U.S.A.'s hegemonic resilience in the face of imaginary disavowal.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. The transcultural contours of Latino U.S.A. -- Chapter 2. Rosario Ferré's trans-"American" fantasy, or subalternizing the self -- Chapter 3. Abraham Rodriguez's boy-zone romance of "American" escape -- Chapter 4. Cuban memory, "American" mobility, and Achy Obejas's lesbian way -- Chapter 5. Coming out of the "American" nightmare with Benjamin Alire Sáenz -- Chapter 6. Coco Fusco, Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and "American" cannibal reveries -- 7. Afterword: Notes on transcultural traffic from across el charco pacífico -- Bibliography -- Index.