The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, And Literary Interculturalism

Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement. Masiki shows how Afro-Latino memoir writers often turn to the African American experience as a model for articulating their Afro-Latinidad. African American literary production, expressive culture, political ideology, and religiosity shaped Afro-Latino subjectivity more profoundly than typically imagined between the post-war and post-soul eras--

• | Author: Trent Masiki
• | Publisher: The University Of North Carolina Press
• | Publication Date: Aug 29, 2023
• | Number of Pages: 252 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Paperback
• | ISBN-10: 1469675277
• | ISBN-13: 9781469675275