The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature

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The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature emphasizes the importance of understanding Latina/o literature not simply as a US ethnic phenomenon but more broadly as an important element of a trans-American literary imagination. Engaging with the dynamics of migration, linguistic and cultural translation, and the uneven distribution of resources across the Americas that characterize Latina/o literature, the essays in this History provide a critical overview of key texts, authors, themes, and contexts as discussed by leading scholars in the field. This book demonstrates the relevance of Latina/o literature for a world defined by the migration of people, commodities, and cultural expressions.

John Moran Gonzalez (Ph.D. Stanford University, 1998) is Professor of English and Director of the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas, Austin. He is author of Border Renaissance: The Texas Centennial and the Emergence of Mexican American Literature (2009) and The Troubled Union: Expansionist Imperatives in Post-Reconstruction American Novels (2010). His articles and reviews have appeared in American Literature, American Literary History, Aztlan, Nineteenth-Century Contexts, Symbolism, Western Historical Quarterly and Western American Literature. He edited The Cambridge Companion to Latina/o American Literature (2016). Llaura Lomas (Ph.D. Columbia University, 2001) is Associate Professor in the English Department at Rutgers University-Newark, where she teaches Latina/o and comparative American literature. Her first book Translating Empire: Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects and American Modernities (2008), won the Modern Language Association (MLA) Prize for Latina/o and Chicana/o literature and an honourable mention from the Latin American Studies Association's Latina/o Studies Section. She is currently writing a monograph on Lourdes Casal and interdisciplinarity and preparing an anthologies of Casal's collected writings. Lomas has published essays and book chapters most recently in Small Axe, The Latino Nineteenth Century, Translation Review, Cuban Studies, and American Literature.

'This edited collection extends the discussion of Latin literature beyond the borders of the Americas. ... This book is an absolute necessity for students of Latin American literature. Essential.' K. Gale, Choice