Against Marginalization: Convergences in Black and Latinx Literatures

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.

Author: Jose O. Fernandez
Publisher: Ohio State University Press
Published: 10/11/2022
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.07lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.63d
ISBN13: 9780814215265
ISBN10: 0814215262
BISAC Categories:
- Literary Criticism | American | African American & Black
- Literary Criticism | American | Hispanic & Latino
- Literary Criticism | Modern | 20th Century

About the Author
Jose O. Fernandez is Assistant Professor in the Latina/o/x Studies Program at the University of Iowa.

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