Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures
Autor Jose O. Fernandezen Limba Engleză Paperback – 11 oct 2022
In Against Marginalization, Jose O. Fernandez examines thematic, aesthetic, historical, and cultural commonalities among post-1960s Black and Latinx writers, showing how such similarities have propelled their fight against social, cultural, and literary marginalization by engaging, adopting, and subverting elements from the larger American literary tradition. Drawing on the work of scholars in both literary traditions–including those who engage with the civil rights movements of the 1960s and 1970s–Fernandez finds intriguing points of convergence. His cross-cultural and comparative analysis puts Black and Latinx authors and literary works into the same frame as he considers the plays of Amiri Baraka and Luis Valdez, the fiction of James Baldwin and Rudolfo Anaya, the essays of Ralph Ellison and Richard Rodriguez, novels by Alice Walker and Helena María Viramontes, and the short fiction of Edward P. Jones and Junot Díaz. Against Marginalization thus uncovers points of correspondence and convergence among Black and Latinx literary and cultural legacies, interrogating how both traditions have moved from a position of literary marginalization to a moment of visibility and critical recognition.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780814258491
ISBN-10: 0814258492
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
ISBN-10: 0814258492
Pagini: 216
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 20 mm
Greutate: 0.29 kg
Editura: Ohio State University Press
Colecția Ohio State University Press
Recenzii
“Both an unparalleled resource on American literary history and a compelling look at how two seemingly distinct expressive traditions complement and converse with one another, Against Marginalization raises the bar for comparative cultural studies and unsettles demands for ethnic absolutist analyses.” — Richard T. Rodríguez, author of Next of Kin: The Family in Chicano/a Cultural Politics
“No other critic has shown so thoroughly how the marginalized canons of African American and Latinx theater, narrative, and essay parallel one another in their historical evolution … Fernández is blazing a trail in comparative literature.” —John Maddox, Hispania
“Boasting an impressive range of case studies that establish original and insightful literary and historical parallels between two literary canons often kept separate, Against Marginalization is a noteworthy contribution to twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black and Latinx scholarship.” —John K. Young, author of Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
“[Against Marginalization] offers insight for scholars interested in American literature, history, and social movements. … Fernandez enhances readers’ understanding of the struggle for Black and Brown liberation and representation in literature and encourages readers to consider the possibilities to come.” —Angela Villamizar, Ethnic and Third World Literatures
“No other critic has shown so thoroughly how the marginalized canons of African American and Latinx theater, narrative, and essay parallel one another in their historical evolution … Fernández is blazing a trail in comparative literature.” —John Maddox, Hispania
“Boasting an impressive range of case studies that establish original and insightful literary and historical parallels between two literary canons often kept separate, Against Marginalization is a noteworthy contribution to twentieth- and twenty-first-century Black and Latinx scholarship.” —John K. Young, author of Black Writers, White Publishers: Marketplace Politics in Twentieth-Century African American Literature
“[Against Marginalization] offers insight for scholars interested in American literature, history, and social movements. … Fernandez enhances readers’ understanding of the struggle for Black and Brown liberation and representation in literature and encourages readers to consider the possibilities to come.” —Angela Villamizar, Ethnic and Third World Literatures
Notă biografică
Jose O. Fernandez is Assistant Professor in the Latina/o/x Studies Program at the University of Iowa.
Extras
Against Marginalization’s main argument is twofold; first, I argue that a group of Black and Latinx texts in different literary genres—novels, drama, essays, and short story collections—written from the 1960s to the last decade of the twentieth century shared compelling instances of convergence related to the ideological and thematic elements incorporated in these texts to challenge the historical, social, and economic marginalization of their respective communities vis-à-vis an Eurocentric and English-speaking mainstream society. The major authors and works explored in this study include Amiri Baraka’s The Slave, Luis Valdez’s Bandido!, James Baldwin’s Tell Me How Long the Train’s Been Gone, Rudolfo Anaya’s Bless Me, Ultima, Ralph Ellison’s Shadow and Act and Going to the Territory, Richard Rodriguez’s Days of Obligation and Brown, Alice Walker’s The Third Life of Grange Copeland, Helena María Viramontes’s Under the Feet of Jesus, Edward P. Jones’s Lost in the City, and Junot Díaz’s Drown. Baraka’s The Slave and Valdez’s Bandido!, for instance, share thematic and narrative strategies in the way they present the marginalized position of Blacks in the antebellum South and Mexican Americans after the Mexican–American War in the Southwest, respectively; both playwrights challenge prevalent historical narratives by rewriting history and staging revolutionary uprisings led by archetypal figures of resistance inscribed in the historical memory of each group. In another comparative case study, I analyze the essays by Ellison and Rodriguez and their shared similarities in their response to challenges to mainstream American culture and literature brought by Black and Mexican American social protest movements during the late 1960s and early 1970s. While Ellison and Rodriguez interpret the racial, ethnic, and cultural composition of the US through a broader and pluralistic view of the historical, cultural, and artistic connections among different racial and ethnic groups, their essays similarly avoid confronting the way in which different racial and ethnic groups have experienced a process of racialization and otherness that had permeated, as Toni Morrison cogently argues, the American literary tradition and the society that created it.
A second argument developed in Against Marginalization is that case studies of post-1960s Black and Latinx authors show that one of their shared strategies in the way they fought against literary exclusion from the American literary tradition was by engaging, appropriating, and subverting the literary tradition. At different periods and in different genres, a number of aesthetic works of post-1960s Black and Latinx writers share formalistic, aesthetic, and stylistic strategies that reflect the influence of literary movements such as naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. These authors engage in some of their writings with some of the American tradition’s most enduring preoccupations such as the tension between art and social protest and the place of writers of color in the literary tradition; some Black and Latinx writers were influenced in a similar manner by authors from the tradition including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Tennessee Williams, and William Faulkner, among others. My comparative analysis suggests that rather than rejecting the influence of a Eurocentric and English-speaking literary tradition advocated by prominent social activists, writers, and artists during the emergence of Black and Chicanx nationalist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, representative authors from each tradition developed as writers and artists under the influence of the American literary tradition that is similarly presented in some of their formalistic, thematic, and aesthetic strategies. Post-1960s Black and Latinx authors fought against literary invisibility in part by engaging with the literary tradition’s literary movements; in turn, as the tradition became more encompassed by the publication, reading, and literary study of Black and Latinx texts, such literary and publishing dynamics contributed to increasing changes and publishing opportunities for authors of color.
A second argument developed in Against Marginalization is that case studies of post-1960s Black and Latinx authors show that one of their shared strategies in the way they fought against literary exclusion from the American literary tradition was by engaging, appropriating, and subverting the literary tradition. At different periods and in different genres, a number of aesthetic works of post-1960s Black and Latinx writers share formalistic, aesthetic, and stylistic strategies that reflect the influence of literary movements such as naturalism, modernism, and postmodernism. These authors engage in some of their writings with some of the American tradition’s most enduring preoccupations such as the tension between art and social protest and the place of writers of color in the literary tradition; some Black and Latinx writers were influenced in a similar manner by authors from the tradition including Harriet Beecher Stowe, Mark Twain, Theodore Dreiser, Tennessee Williams, and William Faulkner, among others. My comparative analysis suggests that rather than rejecting the influence of a Eurocentric and English-speaking literary tradition advocated by prominent social activists, writers, and artists during the emergence of Black and Chicanx nationalist movements of the 1960s and 1970s, representative authors from each tradition developed as writers and artists under the influence of the American literary tradition that is similarly presented in some of their formalistic, thematic, and aesthetic strategies. Post-1960s Black and Latinx authors fought against literary invisibility in part by engaging with the literary tradition’s literary movements; in turn, as the tradition became more encompassed by the publication, reading, and literary study of Black and Latinx texts, such literary and publishing dynamics contributed to increasing changes and publishing opportunities for authors of color.
Cuprins
Introduction Contextualizing Black and Latinx Literatures Chapter 1 Convergences in Black and Latinx Literary Histories through Publishing: Beginnings to 1970s Chapter 2 Imagining an Independent Nation: Archetypal Revolutionaries in the Theater of Amiri Baraka and Luis Valdez Chapter 3 Fighting for One’s Country: World War II Soldiers of Color in the Fiction of James Baldwin and Rudolfo Anaya Chapter 4 Arguing for Inclusion: Cultural Identity and the Literary Tradition in the Essays of Ralph Ellison and Richard Rodriguez Chapter 5 Struggles in the Fields: Communities of Color in the Narratives of Alice Walker and Helena María Viramontes Chapter 6 The Decline of the City: Naturalizing the Black and Latinx Urban Underclass in the Short Fiction of Edward P. Jones and Junot Díaz Conclusion Black and Latinx Writers in the Twenty-First Century: The Visibility of the Few and the Exclusion of the Many
Descriere
Through comparative analysis, illuminates key convergences in the development of Black and Latinx literary traditions through some of their most representative authors.