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
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- 22 Undocumented Immigration in Latina/o Literature
- 23 Latina Feminist Theory and Writing
- 24 Invisible No More
- 25 Latina/o Life Narratives
- 26 Poetics of the “Majority Minority”
- 27 The Quisqueya Diaspora
- 28 Listening to Literature
- 29 Brazuca Literature
- 30 Staging Latinidad and Interrogating Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latina/o Performance and Border Art
- 31 Trans-American Popular Forms of Latina/o Literature
- 32 Trauma, Translation, and Migration in the Crossfire of the Americas
- 33 The Mesoamerican Corridor, Central American Transits, and Latina/o Becomings
- 34 Differential Visions
- 35 Temporal Borderlands
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
35 - Temporal Borderlands
Toward Decolonial Queer Temporality in Latinx Literature
from Part IV - Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
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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
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- 22 Undocumented Immigration in Latina/o Literature
- 23 Latina Feminist Theory and Writing
- 24 Invisible No More
- 25 Latina/o Life Narratives
- 26 Poetics of the “Majority Minority”
- 27 The Quisqueya Diaspora
- 28 Listening to Literature
- 29 Brazuca Literature
- 30 Staging Latinidad and Interrogating Neoliberalism in Contemporary Latina/o Performance and Border Art
- 31 Trans-American Popular Forms of Latina/o Literature
- 32 Trauma, Translation, and Migration in the Crossfire of the Americas
- 33 The Mesoamerican Corridor, Central American Transits, and Latina/o Becomings
- 34 Differential Visions
- 35 Temporal Borderlands
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This essay introduces a de-anachronizing paradigm for reading Latin@ literature, criticism, and literary history and documents Latina/o theory's role in articulating a post-colonial, deanachronizing critique. This essay argues that the decolonial critique of anachronism must be a central rather than peripheral concern in what has been called “the queer turn to temporality,” just as the decolonial project has much to gain from arguments for queer temporality as “a stepping out of the linearity of straight time” (Muñoz 25). A coalitional project materializing such a critique necessarily exposes and counters the intersecting ways in which the coloniality of power is updated when mobility is mapped from a disabling past to an ableist, all-encompassing euroamerican present, primarily as an effect of successful assimilation upon migration northward. I first contextualize straight time as a colonial legacy which returns even in supposedly unconventional narratives of queer temporality; next, I consider some ways in which Latin@ criticism and literature — specifically, 21st-century novels by Daisy Hernández and Felicia Luna Lemus — bring into relational view the temporal borderlands obscured by straight temporality.
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