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Latinx Writing Los Angeles: Nonfiction Dispatches From a Decolonial Rebellion
Author: Ignacio López-Calvo
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Latinx Writing Los Angeles offers a critical anthology of Los Angeless most significant English-language and Spanish-language (in translation) nonfiction writing from the citys inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and writers such as Harry Gamboa Jr., Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Ruben Martinez, focus on the ways in which Latinx Los Angeless nonfiction narratives record the progressive racialization and subalternization of Latinxs in the southwestern United States. While notions of racial memory, coloniality, biopolitics, internal colonialism, cultural assimilation, Mexican or pan-Latinx cultural nationalism, and transnationalism permeate this anthology, contributors advocate the idea of a contested modernity that refuses to accept mainstream cultural impositions, proposing instead alternative ways of knowing and understanding. Featuring a wide variety of voices as well as a diversity of subgenres, this collection is the first to illuminate divergent, hybrid Latinx histories and cultures. Redefining Los Angeless literary history and providing a new model for English, Spanish, and Latinx studies, Latinx Writing Los Angeles is an essential contribution to southwestern and borderland studies. **Review Ignacio Lopez-Calvo and Victor Valle have assembled an intriguing anthology of how and what Mexican Americans and other U.S. Latinx think about Los Angeles.Its other virtue, a provocativepair of essays on the citys literary culture, proposes a critical agenda for reimagining an urban practice of humanities at this time ofanti-immigrant hysteria.David William Foster, Regents Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and author of Sao Paulo Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production (David William Foster 2017-09-19) This book will pump new life into future reviews of Los Angeless literature, strengthen the citys grasp on the peoples and facts of its opaque history, and stimulate teachers to imagine, with their students, a better democracy for all. This finely written book, in both its critical vision and more than a dozen examples of liberating journalism, is a strong step toward an urban humanities that puts Latinx nonfiction writing about LA, for the first time maybe, into the We of We the People of the global city.David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School (David Carrasco 2017-09-19) With inspired juxtapositions, the editors give us a pathbreaking volume that contextualizes and historicizes their unexpected selections to reveal a too often unspoken genealogy of Los Angeles Latinx nonfiction.Otto Santa Ana, professor in the Department of Chicanao Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (Otto Santa Ana 2017-09-19) About the Author IgnacioLopez-Calvo is a professor of literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author or editor of numerous books, includingThe Affinity of the Eye Writing Nikkei in Peru and Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety. Victor Valle is a professor emeritus of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. A former journalist for the Los Angeles Times, Valle earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 with fellow journalists. He is the author ofseveral books, including Latino Metropolis and City of Industry Genealogies of Power in Southern California.
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Latinx Writing Los Angeles offers a critical anthology of Los Angeless most significant English-language and Spanish-language (in translation) nonfiction writing from the citys inception to the present. Contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and writers such as Harry Gamboa Jr., Guillermo Gomez-Pena, and Ruben Martinez, focus on the ways in which Latinx Los Angeless nonfiction narratives record the progressive racialization and subalternization of Latinxs in the southwestern United States. While notions of racial memory, coloniality, biopolitics, internal colonialism, cultural assimilation, Mexican or pan-Latinx cultural nationalism, and transnationalism permeate this anthology, contributors advocate the idea of a contested modernity that refuses to accept mainstream cultural impositions, proposing instead alternative ways of knowing and understanding. Featuring a wide variety of voices as well as a diversity of subgenres, this collection is the first to illuminate divergent, hybrid Latinx histories and cultures. Redefining Los Angeless literary history and providing a new model for English, Spanish, and Latinx studies, Latinx Writing Los Angeles is an essential contribution to southwestern and borderland studies. **Review Ignacio Lopez-Calvo and Victor Valle have assembled an intriguing anthology of how and what Mexican Americans and other U.S. Latinx think about Los Angeles.Its other virtue, a provocativepair of essays on the citys literary culture, proposes a critical agenda for reimagining an urban practice of humanities at this time ofanti-immigrant hysteria.David William Foster, Regents Professor of Spanish and Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University and author of Sao Paulo Perspectives on the City and Cultural Production (David William Foster 2017-09-19) This book will pump new life into future reviews of Los Angeless literature, strengthen the citys grasp on the peoples and facts of its opaque history, and stimulate teachers to imagine, with their students, a better democracy for all. This finely written book, in both its critical vision and more than a dozen examples of liberating journalism, is a strong step toward an urban humanities that puts Latinx nonfiction writing about LA, for the first time maybe, into the We of We the People of the global city.David Carrasco, Neil L. Rudenstine Professor of the Study of Latin America at Harvard Divinity School (David Carrasco 2017-09-19) With inspired juxtapositions, the editors give us a pathbreaking volume that contextualizes and historicizes their unexpected selections to reveal a too often unspoken genealogy of Los Angeles Latinx nonfiction.Otto Santa Ana, professor in the Department of Chicanao Studies at the University of California at Los Angeles (Otto Santa Ana 2017-09-19) About the Author IgnacioLopez-Calvo is a professor of literature at the University of California, Merced. He is the author or editor of numerous books, includingThe Affinity of the Eye Writing Nikkei in Peru and Latino Los Angeles in Film and Fiction The Cultural Production of Social Anxiety. Victor Valle is a professor emeritus of ethnic studies at California Polytechnic State University in San Luis Obispo. A former journalist for the Los Angeles Times, Valle earned a Pulitzer Prize in 1984 with fellow journalists. He is the author ofseveral books, including Latino Metropolis and City of Industry Genealogies of Power in Southern California.
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