The Afro-Latino Memoir
Author | : Trent Masiki |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023 |
ISBN-10 | : 1469675269 |
ISBN-13 | : 9781469675268 |
Rating | : 4/5 (69 Downloads) |
Book excerpt: "Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement. Masiki shows how Afro-Latino memoir writers often turn to the African American experience as a model for articulating their Afro-Latinidad. African American literary production, expressive culture, political ideology, and religiosity shaped Afro-Latino subjectivity more profoundly than typically imagined between the post-war and post-soul eras"--