Title The African heritage of Latinx and Caribbean literature / Sarah M. Quesada

Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 290 pages) : illustrations Series Cambridge studies in world literature Contents Fear : Junot Díaz's zombies and les contorsions extraordinaires in "Monstro" -- Commodification : Black internationalism and the African safari of Achy Obejas's Ruins -- Obliteration : Gabriel García Márquez and his Angolan chronicles of a "Latin-African" death foretold -- Archival distortion : the Chicano-Congo of Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya Summary "The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely-read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World Literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africa's impact in broader Latin American culture. Sarah Quesada argues that these canonical works evoke textual memorials of African memory. She shows how the African Atlantic haunts modern Latinx and Carribbean writing, and examines the disavowal or distortion of the African subject in the constructions of national, racial, sexual, and spiritual Latinx identity. Queseda shows how themes such as the 19th century "scramble for Africa," the decolonizing wars, Black internationalism, and the neoliberal turn are embedded in key narratives. Drawing from multilingual archives about West and Central Africa, she examines how the legacies of colonial French, Iberian, British and U.S. Imperialisms have impacted on the relationships between African and Latinx identities. This is the first book-length project to address the African colonial and imperial inheritance of Latinx literature"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 21, 2022) Subject American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- Caribbean American authors -- History and criticism American literature -- African influences American literature -- 20th century -- History and criticism American literature -- 21st century -- History and criticism Transnationalism in literature. Group identity in literature. LITERARY CRITICISM -- General. American literature American literature -- African influences American literature -- Caribbean American authors American literature -- Hispanic American authors Group identity in literature Literature Transnationalism in literature SUBJECT Africa -- In literature Subject Africa Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. Literary criticism Literary criticism. Critiques littéraires. Form Electronic book LC no. 2022004698 ISBN 9781009086806 1009086804

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