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The Latino a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature

By Raphael Dalleo , Elena Machado Saez

Book information

Year
2007
ISBN
1403977968, 9781403977960, 9780230605169
Open Library ID
OL11642851M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
745 kB (762679 bytes)
Edition
1st
Pages
216\216
Topic
Literature Literary
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07

Description

In the first study of Latino/a literature to systematically examine the post-Sixties generation of writers, The Latino/a Canon and the Emergence of Post-Sixties Literature challenges the ways that Latino/a literary studies imagines the relationship of art, politics and the market. Dalleo and Machado S??ez engage with the major critics from the field to dispute the consensus view of Latino/a literature from the 1960s as politically committed and resistant to the market versus the literature of the 1990s as apolitical and assimilationist due to its commodification. This study argues that post-Sixties writers Pedro Pietri, Ernesto Qui?±onez, Abraham Rodriguez, Junot D?­az, Angie Cruz, Cristina Garcia and Julia Alvarez have not abandoned politics, but are imagining creative strategies for revitalizing progressive thought through the market.

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