Colombian Diasporic Identities: Representations in Literature, Film, Theater and Art

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This book interrogates the identity politics involved in framing Colombian diasporas, examining the ways that creative writers, directors, performers and artists negotiate collective and personal experiences that shape their identities through their art and cultural productions. New consideration of the diversity of Afro-Latin American and Indigenous communities within the overarching categorization of "Colombianness" or Colombianidad have led to increased focus on the representation of Colombia and Colombian diasporic communities. By focusing on different cultural productions—novels, memoirs, films, plays and visual arts—this book analyzes the performance of Colombianidad by communities throughout the diaspora. Topics include Afro-Colombian, US Latinx, Caribbean and queer identity, marginalization of racialized bodies within Colombia and the Colombian diaspora, and the politics of identity representation. Colombian Diasporic Identities: Representations in Literature, Film, Theater and Art examines how a consciously Colombian diasporic existence travels and is altered across geographic locales. Colombian Diasporic Identities will be key reading for scholars and students in US Latinx studies, and Latin American diasporic studies, together with ethnic studies, gender studies, queer studies and literature. Cover Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Table of Contents List of Images Acknowledgments Introduction Notes 1 Visualizing the Invisible: The Novels of Patricia Engel Colombian Diasporic Consciousness and the Layered Identities Within US Latino Literature Luchando … Existiendo … Desapareciendo (Fighting … Existing … Disappearing): Social Invisibility in Vida Trans-Atlantic Identity Awareness in It’s Not Love, It’s Just Paris Forging Connections Across the Ocean: Cuba, Colombia and a Larger Caribbean Narrative Conclusion Notes 2 Queering Caribbean Identity and Language: LGBTQ+ Novels and Memoirs From the Colombian Diaspora; Jaime Manrique,... The Inter-Resemblances of Manrique, Delgado Lopera and Hernández Jaime Manrique’s Pioneering Literary Trajectory: Afro-Colombian-Queer-Caribbean Contributions Julián Delgado Lopera’s Fiebre Tropical: a Queer Bildungsroman Within the Façade of Miami Daisy Hernández: Caribbean Hybridity and Queer Awakenings in A Cup of Water Under My Bed Conclusion Notes 3 Diasporic Hair: Mapping Out Afro-Colombian Identity in the Film La Playa D.C. (2012) Breaking the Gaze of Narcocultura, Routing Out Attention to the Communities of the Pacific Coast Raíces, Roots and Routes: a Heritage of Traditions Conclusion Notes 4 Remixing, Repeating and Reinterpreting: John Leguizamo On Being a Ghetto Klown Leguizamo: a “Ghetto Klown” On the Streets of Queens and Hollywouldn’t Leguizamo as a Racially Extended Remix of Himself Leguizamo as DJ, Spinning the Records of His Life Conclusion Notes 5 Reappropriating Impositions: A Conversation With Gonzalo Fuenmayor Notes Bibliography Index