Latinx Literature Unbound

Since the 1990s, there has been unparalleled growth in the literary output from an ever more diverse group of Latinx writers. The extant criticism, however, has yet to catch up with the diversity of writers we label Latinx and the range of themes about which they write. Little sustained scholarly attention has been paid, moreover, to the very category— Latinx —under which we group this literature. Latinx Literature Unbound , thus, begins with a fundamental question “What does it mean to label a work of literature or an entire corpus of literature Latinx ?” From this question a host of others spin out: What does that grouping allow us to see, predispose us to see, and preclude us from seeing? If the grouping—which brings together a heterogeneous collection of people and groups under a seemingly homogeneous label—tells us something meaningful, is there a poetics we can develop that would facilitate our analysis of this literature? In answering these questions, Latinx Literature Unbound seeks to unbind Latinx literature from taken-for-granted critical assumptions about identity and theme. It argues that there may be more salubrious taxonomies than Latinx for organizing and analyzing this literature. Following a neo-formalist interpretive model that privileges reading as a temporal, meaning-making event, the book argues that genre may be a more durable category for analyzing this literature. Finally, Latinx Literature Unbound suggests some ways in which we might want to proceed as we move forward with future studies of the writing we have come to identify as Latinx

Art · Criticism · Epistemology · Genealogy · Literature · Meaning (existential) · Poetics · Poetry · Sociology · Theme (computing) · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Philosophy · American literature · Hispanic American authors · hispanic american authors, history and criticism · Hispanic American literature (Spanish) · Hispanic american literature (spanish), history and criticism · History and criticism · Latin American literature

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