Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event

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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. Front Matter ....Pages i-xvi The Trouble(s) with Unity: Performative Latinidades Between Culture and Politics (Ricardo L. Ortiz)....Pages 1-12 Reiterating Performatives: The Writer, the Reader and the Risks of Literary Action (Ricardo L. Ortiz)....Pages 13-21 Archive and Diaspora: Julia Alvarez as Poet, Novelist, and Historian (Ricardo L. Ortiz)....Pages 23-33 Against Against Literature: Histories of Fiction, Fictions of History (Ricardo L. Ortiz)....Pages 35-48 The Testimonial Imagination or, Literary Practice “After” Testimonio (Ricardo L. Ortiz)....Pages 49-58 Un-Homey States: Econo-Mimetics of Homelessness in US Latinx Poetry (Ricardo L. Ortiz)....Pages 59-72 (Latinx) Literature’s Work: Between Being and Becoming, Product and Practice (Ricardo L. Ortiz)....Pages 73-86 Back Matter ....Pages 87-100