Symbolism 17: Latina/o Literature: The Trans-Atlantic and the Trans-American in Dialogue

by Rüdiger Ahrens (Editor), Florian Kläger (Editor), Klaus Stierstorfer (Editor), Patricia M. García (Contribution by), John Morán González (Contribution by)

Overview

The complex nature of globalization increasingly requires a comparative approach to literature in order to understand how migration and commodity flows impact aesthetic production and expressive practices. This special issue of Symbolism: An International Journal of Critical Aesthetics explores the trans-American dimensions of Latina/o literature in a trans-Atlantic context. Examining the theoretical implications suggested by the comparison of the global North-global South dynamics of material and aesthetic exchange, this volume highlights emergent Latina/o authors, texts, and methodologies of interest in for comparative literary studies. In the essays, literary scholars address questions of the transculturation, translation, and reception of Latina/o literature in the United States and Europe. In the interviews, emergent Latina/o authors speak to the processes of creative writing in a transnational context. This volume suggests how the trans-American dialogues found in contemporary Latina/o literature elucidates trans-Atlantic critical dialogues.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9783110530414
Publisher:	De Gruyter
Publication date:	10/10/2017
Series:	Symbolism , #17
Pages:	317
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.06(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Rüdiger Ahrens, Uni Würzburg, Germany; Florian Kläger, Uni Bayreuth, Germany; Klaus Stierstorfer, Uni Münster, Germany.

Table of Contents

Foreword from the Editors 5

Special Focus: Latina/o Literature at the Crossroads: The Trans-American and the Trans-Atlantic in Critical Dialogue Corresponding editors: Patricia M. García and John Morán González

Introduction: Latina/o Literature at the Crossroads: The Trans-American and the Trans-Atlantic in Critical Dialogue Patricia Marie García John Morán González 8

I Trans-American Subjectivities: The Critical Aesthetics of Migration and Trans-Migration

A Central American Wound: Remapping the U.S. Borderlands in Oscar Martinez's The Beast Maritza Cárdenas 13

The Undocumented Subjects of el Hueco: Theorizing a Colombian Metaphor for Migration Jennifer Harford Vargas 31

Toxicity and the Politics of Narration: Imagining Social and Environmental Justice in Salvador Plascencia's The People of Paper David J. Vázquez 55

II Intersticies: Translation, Transculturation, and the Trans-Atlantic

Latina/o Literature Goes German Marion Rohrleitner 79

Rerouting the Rise: Upward Mobility in Junot Díaz's Fiction Elda María Román 103

"The Emotional Residue of an Unnatural Boundary": Brownsville and the Borders of Mental Health Julie Avril Minich 123

Between Molds and Models: Female Identities in Almudena Grandes's Models of Women and Roberta Fernandez's Intaglio Isabel Durán Giménez-Rico 143

III Writing the Borderlands of Culture: Interviews with Latina/o Authors

The Once and Future Chicano - World Literatures Between Intra-History and Utopian Vision: An Interview with Alejandro Morales Daniel Schreiner 171

The "I" Before the Border: An interview with Reyna Grande Patricia M. García 185

"Where I Find Poetry and Tension": An Interview with Daniel José Older Ylce Irizarry 199

General Section

Typeface Teutonicus: The Socio-Semiotics of German Typography Before 1919 Brett Shanley 217

Parenthetical Embodiment and the Posthuman Body in Virginia Woolf's To the Lighthouse Inbar Kaminsky 243

Monument Narratives in Recent Anglophone Fiction Barbara Puschmann-Nalenz 259

Book Reviews 281

Index 303