Violentologies : violence, identity, and ideology in latina/o literature

Author(s)

• Olguín, B. V.

Bibliographic Information

Violentologies : violence, identity, and ideology in latina/o literature

B.V. Olguín

（Oxford studies in American literary history）

Oxford University Press, 2021

Other Title

Violentologies : violence, identity, and ideology in latino literature

Note

Includes index

Description and Table of Contents

Description

Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities, or Latinidades, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of violence studies known as violentologia, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence, this book adapts the neologism "violentology" as a heuristic device and epistemic category to map the salience of violence in Latina/o history, life, and culture in the U.S. and globally. Based on one hundred primary texts and archival documents from an expansive range of Latina/o communities - Chicana/o, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Salvadoran American, Guatemalan American, and various mixed-heritages and transversal hybridities throughout the world - Violentologies features multiple generations of Latinx combatants, wartime non-combatants, and "peacetime" civilians whose identities and ideologies extend through, and also far beyond, familiar Latinidades. Based on this discrepant archive, Violentologies articulates a contrapuntal assessment of the inchoate, contradictory, and complex range of violence-based Latina/o ontologies and epistemologies, and corresponding negotiations of power, or ideologies, pursuant to an expansive and meta-critical Pan-Latina/o methodology and, ultimately, an anti-identitarian Post-Latina/o paradigm.

Table of Contents

Preface From Fort Knox, Kentucky to Havana, Cuba: Testimonial Reflections on Race, War, and Revolution Introduction Violentologies: Violence, Ideology, and Supra-Latina/o Ontologies Part I: Warfare and Latina/o Archetypes 1: Caballeros and Indians: Land, War, and the Indian Question in Latina/o Autobiography, Historical Fiction, and Popular Culture 2: Macho Man: Homosocial Soldiering and Ideological Dissensus in Mexican American WWII Memoir, Theater, and Film Part II: Violence and the Global Latinidades 3: Latina/o-Asian Encounters: Transversal Syntheses in Asia, the "Orient," and the Ummah in Latina/o Wartime Narrative, Travelogue, Spoken Word, and Hip Hop 4: Violence and the TransNational Question: Regionalism, Nationalism, and Internationalism in Latina/o War Literature 5: Militarized Mestizajes: Combat, Transculturation, and Imperialism in Latina/o Life Writing from the War on Terror Conclusion The Latinx Mixtape: Violentologies, the End of Latina/o Studies, and Post-Latina/o Futures

by "Nielsen BookData"

• NCID: BC07482917
• ISBN:
  • 9780198863090
• LCCN: 2020947981
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: Oxford
• Pages/Volumes: xxxi, 374 p.
• Size: 24 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PS153.H56
  • DC23 : 810.9868073
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Violence in literature
  • LCSH : Latin American literature -- History and criticism
• Parent Bibliography ID:
  • BB11329905