Broschiertes Buch

Latina Histories and Cultures: Feminist Readings and Recoveries of Archival Knowledge

Beschreibung

This collection of academic essays introduces new research on Latina histories and cultures from the mid-nineteenth century to 1980. Examining a wide range of source materials, including personal and institutional archives, literature and oral history, the authors of the fifteen articles use transnational approaches and Latina feminist theory to remind us of a principle that is still too often forgotten: that sex and gender should be centered as crucial problematics in the study of the long history of Latina/o/x literature and culture. Applying an intersectional methodology that analyzes gender in relation to numerous identities--race, class, sexuality, language and nationality--the scholars explore diverse subjects such as the literary work of historical Latina authors María Amparo Ruiz de Burton and María Cristina Mena; the travails of Basque women in the United States in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries; and Chicana activism in Wyoming in the 1970s and 1980s. The book is divided into four sections: Feminist Readings of Latina Authors; Gender, Politics and Power in the Spanish-Language Press; Radical Latinas' Politics; and Reclaiming Community, Reclaiming Knowledge. In their introduction, editors Montse Feu and Yolanda Padilla map significant elements in the practice of Latina feminist recovery and suggest the importance of using queer studies frameworks and speculative approaches to archives in order to amplify queer, Afro-Latina/o and indigenous voices. Published as part of the Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage Series, Latina Histories and Cultures continues the efforts to rescue the written legacy of the Hispanic population in what has become the United States and will be required reading for academics and students in a variety of disciplines.

Autor

Montse Feu, an associate professor of Spanish and Integrated Studies at Sam Houston State University, is the author of Fighting Fascist Spain. Worker Protest from the Printing Pages (University of Illinois Press, 2020) and has edited numerous other books, including The Antifascist Chronicles of Aurelio Pego (Routledge, 2021) and Serving Refugee Children: Listening to Stories of Detention in the USA (Peter Lang, 2021). She lives in Spring Texas. Yolanda Padilla, an associate professor in the School of Interdisciplinary Arts & Sciences at the University of Washington, Bothell, is the author of numerous articles and book chapters. She is the co-editor of Bridges, Borders and Breaks: History, Narrative, and Nation in Twenty-First-Century Chicano/a Literary Criticism (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2016) and The Plays of Josefina Nigglie: Recovered Landmarks of Latino Literature (University of Wisconsin Press, 2007). She lives in Seattle, Washington.

Produktdetails

• Recovering the Us Hispanic Lit
• Verlag: Arte Publico Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. April 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 142mm x 30mm
• Gewicht: 485g
• ISBN-13: 9781558859647
• ISBN-10: 1558859640
• Artikelnr.: 66351767