The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing provides an in?depth introduction to Latinx life writing, taking a historical approach to the study of a variety of key Latinx life writers, genres, and thematic concerns. This volume includes chapters on fundamental genres of Latinx life writing including memoir, autobiography, oral history, testimonio, comics and graphic texts, poetry of protest, and theatre to more fully depict the breadth, dynamism, and vibrancy of Latinx life writing. Latinx people continuously engaged in the empowering act of telling their stories and narrating their lives, producing writing that at various times and in various ways expressed their joy, expressed their rage and anguish, and ultimately, asserted their subjectivity all the while indelibly contributing to the American literary landscape.
| ISBN: | 9781032225746 |
| Publication date: | 23rd May 2024 |
| Author: | María Joaquina Villaseñor, Christine Jessica Fernandez |
| Publisher: | Routledge an imprint of Taylor & Francis |
| Format: | Hardback |
| Pagination: | 406 pages |
| Series: | Routledge Literature Handbooks |
| Genres: |
Regional / International studies Literary studies: postcolonial literature Literary studies: c 1800 to c 1900 Ethnic studies Biography: general Literary theory History |