Details

Autor(en) / Beteiligte

• Vázquez, David J.
• Bost, Suzanne
• Aparicio, Frances R.

Titel

Novel

Ist Teil von

• The Routledge Companion to Latino/A Literature, 2013, p.299-309

Auflage

1

Ort / Verlag

Routledge

Erscheinungsjahr

2013

Quelle

Literature Online (LION)

Beschreibungen/Notizen

• Central to Latino/a studies scholarship is the idea that there is no singular Latino/a experience. In fact, Chicanos/as, Cuban-Americans, Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, Central Americans, and others with roots in Latin America often share more in common with Anglos than with other Latino/a groups. These complicated aspects of panethnic identity are compounded when we consider literary history and traditions. Because Latino/a novels do not encompass a single literary trajectory, a comparative perspective offers a more productive approach. A comparative approach reveals how many Latino/a novels evidence resistant relationships with mainstream US culture. In what follows, I outline basic definitions of the novel genre and consider how Latinos/as employ the form to articulate oppositional politics. I then analyze a series of Latino/a novels according to three rough periods to provide a literary history of Latino/a novelistic production since the late 1950s and early 1960s.