Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night - Hardcover

DeGuzmán, María

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 025300179X ISBN 13: 9780253001795

Publisher: Indiana University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Often treated like night itself -- both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized -- Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, Maria DeGuzma!n explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels, short stories, poetry, essays, non-fiction, photo-fictions, photography, and film, and examines these texts through the lenses of nationhood, sexuality, human rights, exoticism, among others.

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Buenas Noches, American Culture Explores night and darkness in Latina /o art and literature Full description

Review:

"This wonderfully complex and comparative analysis of the aesthetics of night in Latino literature breaks new ground...it offers a compelling argument about the transvaluation of night in Latino literature that is completely new, original and insightful, deepening scholarship on the critical role of Latino literature in the U.S. body politic." --Theresa Delgadillo "Theresa Delgadillo, Author of Spiritual Mestizaje: Religion, Gender, Race and Nation in Contemporary Chicana Narrative (Duke University Press, 2011) "

About this edition

• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 025300179X
• ISBN 13: 9780253001795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 326