{"product_id":"latinx-literature-now-between-evanescence-and-event-hardcover","title":"Latinx Literature Now: Between Evanescence and Event - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eRicardo L. Ortiz\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction.- 1. The Trouble(s) With Unity.- 2. Reiterating Performatives.- 3. Archive and Diaspora.- 4. Against \u003ci\u003eAgainst Literature\u003c\/i\u003e.- 5. The Testimonial Imagination.- 6. Un-Homey States.- 7. (Latinx) Literature's Work.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eBack Jacket\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eLatinx Literature Now\u003c\/i\u003e engages with a diverse collection of works in Latinx literary studies, critical theory, and the philosophy of history, as well as a wide range of Latinx literary texts, in order to offer readers an alternative model of how Latinx literary scholarship and Latinx literary criticism might go about doing their work. It encourages practitioners in the field to reflect on literature and \u003ci\u003elatinidad\u003c\/i\u003e together as both parallel and intersecting historical-cultural formations, and to assess from that reflection how literary works might uniquely condition and depict \u003ci\u003elatinidad \u003c\/i\u003eas something other than a fixed, stable category of identity, as instead an ongoing process of becoming, one always capable of promise, but also always vulnerable to risk, threat, precarity and even disappearance: that is, as always more prone to the performative flash of an evanescence than to the ontological solidity of an event.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eRicardo L. Ortiz\u003c\/b\u003e is Associate Professor of Latinx Literature and Culture at Georgetown University, USA.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 100\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.31 x 8.27 x 5.83 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e January 21, 2019\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52703803474227,"sku":"9783030047078","price":112.28,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/nmwAg8fAU49783030047078.webp?v=1763340955","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/products\/latinx-literature-now-between-evanescence-and-event-hardcover","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}