Latinx Writing Los Angeles: Nonfiction Dispatches from a Decolonial Rebellion

Latinx Writing Los Angeles is a critical anthology of nonfiction writing from Los Angeles that explores the progressive racialization and subalternization of Latinxs in the southwestern United States. It advocates for a contested modernity that refuses to accept mainstream cultural impositions and provides a new model for English, Spanish, and Latinx studies.

Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 246 pages
Publication date: 01 June 2019
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press

Latinx Writing Los Angeles is a critical anthology that delves into the most significant English-language and Spanish-language nonfiction writing from the city's inception to the present. The book features contemporary Latinx authors, including three Pulitzer Prize winners and notable figures like Harry Gamboa Jr., Guillermo Gómez-Peña, and Rubén Martínez. These authors explore how Latinx Los Angeless nonfiction narratives capture 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 for a contested modernity that refuses to accept mainstream cultural impositions. Instead, they propose alternative ways of knowing and understanding.

The book showcases a wide variety of voices and subgenres, providing the first comprehensive exploration of divergent, hybrid Latinx histories and cultures. By redefining Los Angeles' literary history and offering a new model for English, Spanish, and Latinx studies, Latinx Writing Los Angeles makes an essential contribution to southwestern and borderland studies.

Weight: 380g
Dimension: 152 x 228 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781496214577