Ylce Irizarry
Biographic Data
| ID | 3681248 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Ylce Irizarry |
| GIVEN NAMES | Ylce |
| FAMILY NAME | Irizarry |
| SIGNATURE | IRIZARRY Y |
| AFFILIATIONS | East Carolina University |
| ORCID | 0009-0006-4841-4722 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Americas Ecogothic: The monstrosity of erasure in The Rag Doll Plagues and Tentacle
Volume 44: Full issue
How Did We Get Here? Racial Reckoning To Racist RetrenchmentIn the summer of 2020, widespread protests against systemic racism swept the nation and the world in the aftermath of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.These protests built upon decades and centuries of collective resistance against racial injustice, and they also signaled a shift.People and communities that had never protested before-and had never uttered the words …
Documenting the Undocumented: Latina/o Narratives and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper. Marta Caminero-Santangelo
Published before the US presidential election of 2016, Documenting the Undocumented: Latino/a Narratives and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper anticipated the powerful effects of narratives about the undocumented. Despite Donald Trump’s campaign promises to build the wall and have Mexico pay for it and to end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), he has not only failed to secure legislative support for both proposals, but…
Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad
This book moves beyond literature that prioritizes assimilation to examine how contemporary fiction depicts being Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, or Puerto Rican within Chicana/o and Latina/o America. The book establishes four dominant categories of narrative—loss, reclamation, fracture, and new memory—that address immigration, gender and sexuality, cultural nationalisms, and neocolonialism. As it shows, narrative concerns have moved away from the wea…
Doubly troubling narratives Writing 'the oppression of possibility' in Puerto Rico and Cuba
Since the 'boom' of US ethnic writing, a number of writers have published novels dealing with the colonial-era Hispanic Caribbean. US-authored novels such as The Agüero Sisters (Cristina García, 1998) have received little critical attention in the USA. Similarly, English language novels written by Hispanic Caribbean authors such as The House on the Lagoon (Rosario Ferré, 1996) have received even less, if not hostile, critical attention from Carib…
Doubly troubling narratives Writing 'the oppression of possibility' in Puerto Rico and Cuba
Since the 'boom' of US ethnic writing, a number of writers have published novels dealing with the colonial-era Hispanic Caribbean. US-authored novels such as The Agüero Sisters (Cristina García, 1998) have received little critical attention in the USA. Similarly, English language novels written by Hispanic Caribbean authors such as The House on the Lagoon (Rosario Ferré, 1996) have received even less, if not hostile, critical attention from Carib…
Doubly troubling narratives Writing 'the oppression of possibility' in Puerto Rico and Cuba
Since the 'boom' of US ethnic writing, a number of writers have published novels dealing with the colonial-era Hispanic Caribbean. US-authored novels such as The Agüero Sisters (Cristina García, 1998) have received little critical attention in the USA. Similarly, English language novels written by Hispanic Caribbean authors such as The House on the Lagoon (Rosario Ferré, 1996) have received even less, if not hostile, critical attention from Carib…
Chicana/o and Latina/o Fiction: The New Memory of Latinidad
This book moves beyond literature that prioritizes assimilation to examine how contemporary fiction depicts being Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, or Puerto Rican within Chicana/o and Latina/o America. The book establishes four dominant categories of narrative—loss, reclamation, fracture, and new memory—that address immigration, gender and sexuality, cultural nationalisms, and neocolonialism. As it shows, narrative concerns have moved away from the wea…
Documenting the Undocumented: Latina/o Narratives and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper. Marta Caminero-Santangelo
Published before the US presidential election of 2016, Documenting the Undocumented: Latino/a Narratives and Social Justice in the Era of Operation Gatekeeper anticipated the powerful effects of narratives about the undocumented. Despite Donald Trump’s campaign promises to build the wall and have Mexico pay for it and to end DACA (Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals), he has not only failed to secure legislative support for both proposals, but…
Volume 44: Full issue
How Did We Get Here? Racial Reckoning To Racist RetrenchmentIn the summer of 2020, widespread protests against systemic racism swept the nation and the world in the aftermath of the police killings of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor.These protests built upon decades and centuries of collective resistance against racial injustice, and they also signaled a shift.People and communities that had never protested before-and had never uttered the words …
The Americas Ecogothic: The monstrosity of erasure in The Rag Doll Plagues and Tentacle
Latin American and Latino Studies (4 works) · Narrative (4 works) · Gender Studies (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Politics (3 works) · Sociology (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · History (2 works) · Immigration (2 works)