John Morán González - The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature

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DOI : 10.1017/9781316869468

First published 2018

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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data

Names: Gonzlez, John Morn, 1966 June 30- editor. | Lomas, Laura, 1967- editor.

Title: The Cambridge history of Latina/o American literature / edited by John Morn Gonzlez, Laura Lomas.

Description: Cambridge ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Identifiers: LCCN 2017032440 | ISBN 9781107183087 (Hardback)

Subjects: LCSH: Latin American literatureHistory and criticism.

Classification: LCC PQ7081.A1 C353 2018 | DDC 860.9/98dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017032440

A Patricia, Angelita, y Santiago, siempre en mi corazn JMG

A Amaru, Marta Zabina, el futuro; y a Rubn, mi cielo LAL

Jesse Alemn is Professor of English at The University of New Mexico, where he teaches nineteenth-century American and Chicana/o literatures. He has published over a dozen articles in venues such as Aztln, American Literary History, MELUS , and Arizona Quarterly . He edited Loreta Janeta Velazquezs The Woman in Battle . In addition, he has coedited two anthologies, Empire and the Literature of Sensation with Shelley Streeby (2007) and The Latino Nineteenth Century with Rodrigo Lazo (2016).

Lorena Alvarado holds a Ph.D. in Culture and Performance from the University of California, Los Angeles. Her book project, Playing with Feeling: Musical Performances of Mexican Sentimiento , develops a theory of sentimiento , the ability to convey and inspire emotion as it circulates through twentieth- and twenty-first-century U.S. Mexican and Latina/o vocal and musical practices. She is Assistant Professor at University of California, Merced, Global Arts program, and has previously taught at University of California, Riverside, Northwestern University, and the University of Houston.

Arturo Arias is John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation Professor in the Humanities at the University of California, Merced. He has published Taking Their Word: Literature and the Signs of Central America (2007), The Rigoberta Mench Controversy (2000), The Identity of the Word: Guatemalan Literature in Light of the New Century (1998), and Ceremonial Gestures: Central American Fiction 1960-1990 (1998), as well as a critical edition of Miguel Angel Asturiass Mulata (2000). From 2001 to 2003 he was president of the Latin American Studies Association. He also cowrote the film El Norte (1984) and has published six novels in Spanish, two of which have been translated to English ( After the Bombs , 1990, and Rattlesnake , 2003). Twice winner of the Casa de las Amricas Award, and winner of the Ana Seghers Award for fiction in Germany, he was given the Miguel Angel Asturias National Award for Lifetime Achievement in Literature in 2008 in his native Guatemala. At present he is working on a three-volume analysis of indigenous literatures in Latin America.

Eliana vila is Professor of English-Language Literatures at Federal University of Santa Catarina at Florianopolis, Brazil. Her doctoral research on Elizabeth Bishops Brazilian writings led her to explore the relations among postcolonial studies, queer temporality, disability studies, and translation studies in the volume she edited for Ilha do Desterro (2005) as well as in her articles and book chapters published in Brazil such as Pode o tradutor ouvir? in Traduo e Relaes de Poder (2013), partially based on Gayatri Chakravorty Spivaks Translation as Culture (2000) which she co-translated (with Liane Schneider) into Brazilian Portuguese. She received a visiting research grant to complete a translation of Gloria Anzaldas Borderlands / La frontera into Brazilian Portuguese, based on her research on decolonial queer criticism, while affiliated with the Latin American and Latino Studies Department and the Chicano Latino Research Center at the University of California at Santa Cruz.