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

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

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....

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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
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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.

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