Violentologies : violence, identity, and ideology in latina/o literature
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Violentologies : violence, identity, and ideology in latina/o literature
（Oxford studies in American literary history）
Oxford University Press, 2021
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Violentologies : violence, identity, and ideology in latino literature
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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
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