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AWARDS AND RECOGNITION: • NACCS Book Award, National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies, 2018 • MLA Prize in United States Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies, Modern Language Association, 2017 Reading the stories Chicanas/os and Latinas/os remember about themselves In this new study, Ylce Irizarry 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. Irizarry establishes four dominant categories of narrative--loss, reclamation, fracture, and new memory--that address immigration, gender and sexuality, cultural nationalisms, and neocolonialism. As she shows, narrative concerns have moved away from the weathered notions of arrival and assimilation. Contemporary Chicana/o and Latina/o literatures instead tell stories that have little, if anything, to do with integration into the Anglo-American world. The result is the creation of new memory. This reformulation of cultural membership unmasks the neocolonial story and charts the conscious engagement of cultural memory. It outlines the ways contemporary Chicana/o

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Author

Ylce Irizarry

Publisher

University of Illinois Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9780252084287

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

Literary Criticism, Fiction, Literary Fiction