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
32 - Trauma, Translation, and Migration in the Crossfire of the Americas
The Intersection of Latina/o and South American Literatures
from Part IV - Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
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 chapter examines a wide array of literature by Latina/o authors of South American background from the 1970s into the twenty-first century. By using a transnational paradigm, I argue that these authors are in constant dialogue between their respective South American (heritage) nations and the United States in the construction of a diasporic migratory identity. As a consequence of political and/or economic turmoil due to civil wars and dictatorships in their South American nations, many authors intervene in these historical processes by inserting an alternative voice in their texts. As cultural and linguistic translators many also represent a modern vision of gender, race, and sexuality in a critique of South American as well as U.S. conventions. South American descent/origin authors form part of a dynamic group of world practitioners who are constantly shifting the national boundaries of what it means to be a Latino/a author in today’s global age.
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