In Latinidad at the Crossroad: Insights into Latinx identity in the Twenty-First Century Gerke and González RodrÃguez provide flashing glimpses into the ways in which Latinas/os struggle to forge their multiracial and multicultural identities within their own communities and in mainstream U.S. society. This volume encompasses an interdisciplinary perspective on the complex range of latinidades that confronts stereotypical connotations, and simultaneously advocates a more flexible (re)definition that may overcome static collective representations of identity, ethnicity and belonging. Well-positioned in the current political context, the notion of latinidad is examined as a complex sociological phenomenon of identity-construction which is affected by outside influences and is used as a powerful linguistic, cultural and ideological weapon to denounce oppression and deconstruct stereotypes. Including chapters from foundational and influential scholars, this collection moves towards a dynamic exploration of how Latinx are remapping their identity positions in twenty-first century America.
Amanda Ellen Gerke, Ph.D. (2016), is Assistant Professor at the University of Salamanca. She has published articles, chapters and edited volumes on discourse analysis, sociolinguistic approaches to discourse and literature, semiotic theory, and cultural studies, including The Poetics and Politics of Hospitality in US Literature and Culture (Brill, 2020).
Luisa MarÃa González RodrÃguez, Ph.D. (2005), is Associate Professor at the University of Salamanca, where she combines research on literature and linguistics. She has published on the politics and aesthetics of postmodern short fiction and on ethnic literatures, including the chapter âLatino Immigrants at the Threshold: A Sociolinguistic Approach to Hospitality in US Barriocentric Narrativesâ (Brill, 2020).
Acknowledgments
Notes on Contributors
Puerto Rican Discovery #3:Â Not Neither
Introduction
âRevisiting Latinidad in the 21st Century
ââAmanda Ellen Gerke and Luisa MarÃa González RodrÃguez
Seismic Shifts in Chicano/a Literature Leading into the Twenty-First Century
âAre Latinos/as Now Coasting Or Still Breaking New Ground?
ââFrancisco A.â¯ï»¿ï»¿LomelÃ
Digging through the Past to Reconcile Race and Latinx Identity in Dominican-American Womenâs Memoirs
ââLuisa MarÃa González RodrÃguez
Dominicans and the Political Realm of Latinidad in New York City
ââFernandoâ¯ï»¿ï»¿Aquino
Identity, De-Colonization and Cosmopolitanism in (Afro)Latina Artistsâ Spoken Word Performances
ââEsther Ãlvarezâ¯López
Encarnaciones Cubanas
âElÃas Miguel Muñoz and Queering of the Latina/o Canon
ââYlce Irizarry
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