Against marginalization : convergences in Black and Latinx literatures / Jose O. Fernandez.
| Author/creator |
Fernandez, Jose O., 1976- author. |
| Format | Book and Print |
| Publication Info | Columbus : The Ohio State University Press, [2022] |
| Copyright Notice | ̐u2022 |
| Description | x, 203 pages ; 23 cm |
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| Contents | Introduction: Contextualizing Black and Latinx literatures -- Convergences in Black and Latinx literary histories through publishing: beginnings to 1970s -- Imagining an independent nation: archetypal revolutionaries in the theater of Amiri Baraka and Luis Valdez -- Fighting for one's country: World War II soldiers of color in the fiction of James Baldwin and Rudolfo Anaya -- Arguing for inclusion: cultural identity and the literary tradition in the essays of Ralph Ellison and Richard Rodriguez -- Struggles in the fields: communities of color in the narratives of Alice Walker and Helena Mar̐uia Viramontes -- The decline of the city: naturalizing the Black and Latinx urban underclass in the short fiction of Edward P. Jones and Junot D̐uiaz -- Conclusion: Black and Latinx writers in the twenty-first century: the visibility of the few and the exclusion of the many. |
| Abstract | "Analyzes the convergences of Black and Latinx literature-including works by Amiri Baraka, Luis Valdez, James Baldwin, Rudolfo Anaya, Ralph Ellison, Richard Rodriguez, Alice Walker, Helena Mar̐uia Viramontes, Edward P. Jones, and Junot D̐uiaz-and how writers from both traditions fought against social, cultural, and literary marginalization"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-192) and index. |
| Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
| Genre/form | History. |
| LCCN | 2022021768 |
| ISBN | 9780814215265 |
| ISBN | 0814215262 (cloth) |
| ISBN | 9780814258491 (paperback) |
| ISBN | 0814258492 (paperback) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
| ISBN | (ebook) |
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