{"product_id":"9780823279234-latinx-literature-unbound","title":"Latinx Literature Unbound","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eUndoing Ethnic Expectation. \u003ci\u003eLatinx Literature Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as \u003ci\u003eLatinx\u003c\/i\u003e. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled \u003ci\u003eLatinx.\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003cp\u003eSince the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. Extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category under which we group this literature.\u003ci\u003e Latinx Literature Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e, thus, begins with a fundamental question “What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature \u003ci\u003eLatinx\u003c\/i\u003e?” From this question others emerge: What does \u003ci\u003eLatinx\u003c\/i\u003e allow or predispose us to see, and what does it preclude us from seeing? If the grouping—which brings together a heterogeneous collection of people under a seemingly homogeneous label—tells us something meaningful, is there a poetics we can develop that would facilitate our analysis of this literature?\u003cbr\u003eIn answering these questions, \u003ci\u003eLatinx Literature Unbound\u003c\/i\u003e frees Latinx literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than \u003ci\u003eLatinx\u003c\/i\u003e for organizing and analyzing this literature. Privileging the act of reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, Ralph E. Rodriguez argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature and suggests new ways we might proceed with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as \u003ci\u003eLatinx\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40901454430305,"sku":"9780823279234","price":96.55,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/6fd17bc1dcf4b0ac77a19bd4220e9297.png?v=1689090198","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780823279234-latinx-literature-unbound","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}