{"product_id":"invisibility-and-influence-a-literary-history-of-afrolatinidades-paperback-softback-9781477329146","title":"Invisibility and Influence; A Literary History of AfroLatinidades (Paperback \/ softback) 9781477329146","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eInvisibility and Influence\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eA Literary History of AfroLatinidades\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eRegina Marie Mills (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781477329146, University of Texas Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003ePaperback \/ softback, published 4 June 2024\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e256 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.8 cm, 0.367 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cdiv\u003eThe book reads like an elegant river; the chapters strategically flow into each other, each building on the other, critiquing, deconstructing, and expanding Mills’s core argument.\u003c\/div\u003e (Latino Studies)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich literary study of AfroLatinx life writing, this book traces how AfroLatinxs have challenged their erasure in the United States and Latin America over the last century.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eInvisibility and Influence\u003c\/i\u003e demonstrates how a century of AfroLatinx writers in the United States shaped life writing, including memoir, collective autobiography, and other formats, through depictions of a wide range of “Afro-Latinidades.” Using a woman-of-color feminist approach, Regina Marie Mills examines the work of writers and creators often excluded from Latinx literary criticism. She explores the tensions writers experienced in being viewed by others as only either Latinx or Black, rather than as part of their own distinctive communities. Beginning with Arturo (Arthur) Schomburg, who contributed to wider conversations about autobiographical technique, \u003ci\u003eInvisibility and Influence \u003c\/i\u003eexamines a breadth of writers, including JesÚs ColÓn; members of the Young Lords; Piri Thomas; Lukumi santera and scholar Marta Moreno Vega; and Black Mexican American poet Ariana Brown. Mills traces how these writers confront the distorted visions of AfroLatinxs in the United States, Latin America, and the Caribbean, and how they created and expressed AfroLatinx spirituality, politics, and self-identity, often amidst violence. Mapping how AfroLatinx writers create their own literary history, Mills reveals how AfroLatinx life writing shapes and complicates discourses on race and colorism in the Western Hemisphere. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Acknowledgments \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Introduction: (Life) Writing against Mestizaje \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 1. Arturo Schomburg, Pura BelprÉ\u003cbr\u003e, and the “\u003cbr\u003eRacial Integrity”\u003cbr\u003e of Auto\/biography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 2. JesÚ\u003cbr\u003es ColÓ\u003cbr\u003en, the New York Young Lords, and “\u003cbr\u003eObserve and Participate”\u003cbr\u003e Autobiography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 3. AfroLatinidad as Creative Destruction: Piri Thomas’\u003cbr\u003es Life Writing as a Theorization of Violence \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 4. Call-and-Response AfroLatinidad: Spirituality, Race, and Gender in Marta Moreno Vega’\u003cbr\u003es and Lourdes Casal’\u003cbr\u003es Life Writing \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e 5. Queer AfroLatinidades: Monstrosity and Reclaiming Black Latinx Girlhood in Jaquira DÍ\u003cbr\u003eaz’\u003cbr\u003es \u003ci\u003eOrdinary Girls\u003c\/i\u003e and Ariana Brown’\u003cbr\u003es Verse Memoirs \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Epilogue: Science, Spirituality, and Changing Notions of Ancestry in AfroLatinx Narratives \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Notes \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Bibliography \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e Index \u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University of Texas Press","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52590990098712,"sku":"9781477329146","price":25.45,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/invisibility-and-influence-a-literary-history-of-afrolatinidades-paperback-softback-9781477329146","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}