Walk the Barrio : The Streets of Twenty-First-Century Transnational Latinx Literature /
"The first- and second-generation Latinx authors discussed in Walk the Barrio use their US hometowns as both setting and stylistic inspiration, utilizing various formal techniques to mirror their literary location to the real one. The book presents a "barriography" for each work, whic...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Charlottesville :
University of Virginia Press,
2022.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | "The first- and second-generation Latinx authors discussed in Walk the Barrio use their US hometowns as both setting and stylistic inspiration, utilizing various formal techniques to mirror their literary location to the real one. The book presents a "barriography" for each work, which includes first-person reportage, archival research, human geography, relevant theories of space, and interviews with the author, neighbors, or local historians. Authors considered include Helena María Viramontes, Salvador Plascencia, Hector Tobar, William Archila, Junot Díaz, Angie Cruz, and Richard Blanco"-- |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (314 pages). |
ISBN: | 9780813948072 |