Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas

Renee Hudson's Latinx Revolutionary Horizons theorizes a liberatory latinidad that illuminates its political potential and connects the revolutionary history of the Americas to the creation of new genres in the hemisphere. It rewrites our understanding of the nationalist formations that continue to characterize Latinx Studies by pairing nineteenth-century authors with contemporary Latinx ones and expanding its literary canon.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 288 pages
Publication date: 29 April 2024
Publisher: Fordham University Press

Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, written by Renee Hudson, presents a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and proposes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution. Hudson challenges the notion of Latinx as solely a category of identification and argues for an expansive, historicized sense of the term that illuminates its political potential. She contends that the x in Latinx signifies the suspension and tension between how Latin American descended people identify and the future politics the x points us toward. Latinx Revolutionary Horizons examines the not-yet-here of latinidad to investigate the connection between the revolutionary history of the Americas and the creation of new genres in the hemisphere, from conversion narratives and dictator novels to neoslave narratives and testimonios. By comparing colonialisms, Hudson charts a revolutionary genealogy across a range of movements such as the Mexican Revolution, the Filipino People Power Revolution, resistance to Trujillo in the Dominican Republic, and the Cuban Revolution. In pairing nineteenth-century authors alongside contemporary Latinx ones, Hudson examines a longer genealogy of Latinx resistance while expanding its literary canon, from the works of José Rizal and Martin Delany to those of Julia Alvarez, Jessica Hagedorn, and Leslie Marmon Silko. In imagining a truly transnational latinidad, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons offers a critical perspective on the politics of identity and the role of literature in shaping our understanding of the world.

Weight: 474g
Dimension: 153 x 229 x 21 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781531507190