Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
9 - Trajectories of ExChange
Toward Histories of Latina/o Literature
from Part II - The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- 6 Whither Latinidad?
- 7 Father Félix Varela and the Emergence of an Organized Latina/o Minority in Early Nineteenth-Century New York City
- 8 Transamerican New Orleans
- 9 Trajectories of ExChange
- 10 Narratives of Displacement in Places that Once Were Mexican
- 11 Under the Skin of Latina Feminism and Racism
- 12 José Martí, Comparative Critique, and the Emergence of Latina/o Modernity in Gilded Age New York
- 13 Afro-Latinidad
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
While Latino literature has inspired notable historical scholarship, critics have pointed to a dearth of Latino literary history, meaning studies that track the relationships, changes and development of literary production over centuries. In turn, literary continuity in anthologies is often posited in relation to a transhistorical notion of Latinidad that papers over the multiplicity of identities and types of texts that circulate in different historical periods. This article calls for literary histories that are attentive to critiques that emerged in recent decades as scholars became skeptical of coherent narratives associated with nation-based forms of literary history. The challenge is to develop new forms of literary history that explain how and why texts from other centuries should be considered part of a trajectory of Latino literature leading to the present. Lazo proposes that approaches should be attentive to changes in print culture, hemispheric historical conditions, and the different types of racial affiliations that emerge for writers and intellectuals. The latter part of the article presents a brief trajectory of literary history that focuses on elite writers whose investment in commercial activity inspired them to produce texts.
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