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In this original look at how ethnic literature enters the U.S. classroom and the literary canon, Delia Poey compares the risks facing teachers and interpreters of well-known Latina/o or Latin American texts with those run by the ""coyote"" who smuggles undocumented workers across the U.S./Mexico border: both are in danger of erasing those cultural traits that made the border crossers important. Poey shows that these texts have yet to be fully main-streamed into the curricula, and that teachers of multicultural literature inadvertently re-colonize the texts by failing to treat them ""on their own terms."" She goes beyond highlighting the ways a superficial understanding of Latin American literature has led to an even more superficial or problematic reception of Latina/o texts and offers solutions. In looking at such familiar books as Borderlands, Hunger of Memory, House on Mango Street, Bless Me Ultima, and One Hundred Years of Solitude, Poey not only provides teachers and critics of Latina/o literature with innovative and viable approaches to these texts but proposes new contexts for them and new ways of viewing how they have been treated in classrooms and criticism. Far more than merely an entry in the current debate over canon and curricular reform, the work combines a practical approach to teaching Latina/o literature with suggestions on diversifying curricula and revising established reading practices.
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Poey's study of the institutionalization of Latin American and Latino literature in the U.S. academy is original, smart, spirited, and full of shrewd observations. - Gustavo Perez Firmat, David Feinson Professor of Humanities, Columbia University
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Delia Poey is assistant professor of Spanish at Florida State University. She has edited Out of the Mirrored Garden: New Fiction by Latin American Women and co-edited Little Havana Blues: A Cuban American Literature Anthology and Iguana Dreams: New Latino Fiction.
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- PublisherUniversity Press of Florida
- Publication date2002
- ISBN 10 0813024773
- ISBN 13 9780813024776
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages125
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: fine. Octavo in balck and red jacket; 125 pages ; 24 cm. Includes bibliographical references (pages 109-120) and index. "Delia Poey compares the risks facing teachers and interpreters of well-known Latina/o and Latin American texts with those run by the "coyote" who smuggles undocumented workers across the U.S./Mexico border: both are in danger of erasing those cultural traits that made the border crossers important." "Poey shows that these texts have yet to be fully mainstreamed into the curricula, and that teachers of multicultural literature inadvertently re-colonize the texts by failing to treat them "on their own terms." She goes beyond highlighting the ways a superficial understanding of Latin American literature has led to an even more superficial or problematic reception of Latina/o texts and offers solutions. Poey not only provides teachers and critics of Latina/o literature with innovative and viable approaches to these texts but proposes new contexts for them and new ways of viewing how they have been treated in classrooms and criticism."--Jacket. Contents: 1. Border Crossers and Coyotes -- 2. Boom(ing) Fictions: Magical Realism and the Reception of Latina/o Literatures -- 3. Out of Bounds: Testimonio and Its Reception -- 4. Spic Spanglish? The Reception of Borderlands/La Frontera and Linguistic Resistance -- 5. Coming of Age in the Curriculum: The House on Mango Street and Bless Me, Ultima as Representative Texts -- Conclusion: Coyotes in the Classroom. || Descriptor: American literature -- Hispanic American authors -- Study and teaching. Latin American literature -- Study and teaching -- United States. Hispanic Americans -- Intellectual life -- Study and teaching. Hispanic Americans in literature -- Study and teaching. Politics and literature -- Latin America. Politics and literature -- United States. Spaans. Letterkunde. Spaanse Amerikanen. Tekstinterpretatie. Literatuuronderwijs. Politieke aspecten. Amerikaans. Note(s):. Fine in fine jacket; as new. Seller Inventory # 85866
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