Latino Fiction and the Modernist Imagination

This critical analysis examines a wide range of contemporary Latino novels and short stories written in English by mainland Puerto Ricans, Chicano/as, and Cuban Americans. Using dose readings of recent fiction, the work argues that modernist narrative techniques, stemming from both European and Latin American sources (from both Faulkner and Garcia Marquez), contribute to the Latino writer's depictions of cultural borderlands and dualities. Emphasizing the humor and stylistic subtleties of these works, the author provides a deeper understanding of how such Latino/a writers as Cisneros, Ed Vega, Cristina Garcia, Hijuelos, or Cecile Pineda give voice to characters who encounter such issues as stereotyping, multilingualism, gender, spirituality, and cultural hybridity. Unique in its detailed exploration of the Latino fiction writers use of language (both Spanish and English), this study often new insights into the complexity of prose works that stretch across linguistic boundaries. Covering fiction by both Latino and Latina writers from a variety of Latin American ethnic backgrounds, the work explores tissues that concern Latino-Latinas throughout the entire U.S., both urban and rural, form Miami to L.A., the Bronx to East Texas, Arizona to Chicago.

ISBN 0815332467   Pages 224 ISBN13 9780815332466 (What's this?)   Volumes 1 Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc   Weight (grammes) 453 Imprint Garland Publishing Inc   Published in CT Format Hardback   Series title Latino Communities: Emerging Voices, Political, Social, Cultural & Legal Publication date 01 Dec 1998   Height (mm) 216 Library of Congress 98031294   Width (mm) 140 DEWEY 813.5409868   Spine width (mm) 16 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level Undergraduate, Postgraduate

		Acknowledgments
		Introduction
Sect. I		The Literary Context
Ch. 1		The Narrative Techniques of the Border
Ch. 2		The "Magic" of Influence upon Latino Narrative
Sect. II		The Languages of the Borderlands
Ch. 3		Latino Voices and "English con Salsa"
Ch. 4		Dreams and Betrayals: Latinos Between Worlds
Sect. III		The Cultures and the Carnival
Ch. 5		Carnival and the "department store called america"
Ch. 6		"Flowers of the Dead:" The Latino Quest for Ancestors
		Bibliography
		Index

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