Latinidad at the Crossroads: Insights into Latinx Identity in the Twenty-First Century

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In Latinidad at the Crossroad: Insights into Latinx identity in the Twenty-First Century Gerke and González Rodríguez provide flashing glimpses into the ways in which Latinas/os struggle to forge their multiracial and multicultural identities within their own communities and in mainstream U.S. society. This volume encompasses an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex range of latinidades that confronts stereotypical connotations, and simultaneously advocates a more flexible (re)definition that may overcome static collective representations of identity, ethnicity and belonging. Well-positioned in the current political context, the notion of latinidad is examined as a complex sociological phenomenon of identity-construction which is affected by outside influences and is used as a powerful linguistic, cultural and ideological weapon to denounce oppression and deconstruct stereotypes. Including chapters from foundational and influential scholars, this collection moves towards a dynamic exploration of how Latinx are remapping their identity positions in twenty-first century America. Contributors: Francisco A. Lomelí, José Antonio Gurpegui, Esther Álvarez López, Ylce Irizarry, Luisa María González Rodríguez, Ewa Antoszek, Fernando Aquino. Half Title Series Information Title Page Copyright Page Dedication Contents Acknowledgments Notes on Contributors Puerto Rican Discovery #3: Not Neither Introduction: Revisiting Latinidad in the 21st Century 1 (Re)Mapping Latinidad 2 Panethnicity in Context 3 The Space(s) of Latinidad 4 Culminating Notions References Seismic Shifts in Chicano/a Literature Leading into the Twenty-First Century: Are Latinos/as Now Coasting or Still Breaking New Ground? 1 Shockwaves and Ripple Effects: Chicano/a Literature Re-emerges 2 Relegated No More: Breaking Our Relative Silence 3 Chicana Postmodern Generation: A Second Renaissance 4 Post-Movement Production and Globalization 5 Twenty-First Century: Neoteric Currents and Multiple Directions 6 Fissures Coming Together to Form a New Literary Order References Digging through the Past to Reconcile Race and Latinx Identity in Dominican-American Women’s Memoirs 1 Memory and the Construction of Identity and Community 2 Afro-latinidades as a Domain of Difference 3 Re-establishing Cultural Continuities by Building a Transnational Latinx Identity 4 Conclusion References Dominicans and the Political Realm of Latinidad in New York City References Identity, De-colonization and Cosmopolitanism in (Afro)Latina Artists’ Spoken Word Performances 1 Contesting (Neo)Colonial Difference: Mayda del Valle’s “Descendancy” 2 De-colonizing Memory and Color: The (Cosmopolitan) Potentiality of Afro-Latinidad 3 De-colonizing (Afro)Latina Identity: A Survivalist Poetics References Encarnaciones Cubanas: Elías Miguel Muñoz and Queering of the Latina/o Canon 1 The US Ethnic ‘Boom’ and the Emergence of Latinidad 2 Queering Exile: The Greatest Performance (1991) 3 Queering Cubanidad: Brand New Memory (1998) 4 Conclusions References Revisiting La Frontera: Consuelo Jiménez Underwood and Ana Teresa Fernández References Borders and Immigration: Revisiting Canonical Chicano Literature under Trump’s Regime References Conclusions 1 Revealing the Kaleidoscope 2 Who Are You Calling Latinx? 3 Moving Away from the Hyphen: Creating New Spaces of Latinidad References Index