Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism
edited by Marcial Gonzalez and Carlos Gallego
University of Michigan Press, 2018 Cloth: 978-0-472-07395-5 | eISBN: 978-0-472-12411-4 | Paper: 978-0-472-05395-7 Library of Congress Classification PS153.H56D52 2018 Dewey Decimal Classification 810.9868073
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ABOUT THIS BOOK
Dialectical Imaginaries brings together essays that analyze the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of U.S. Latino/a literature. The editors argue that recent global events have compelled contemporary scholars to reexamine traditional interpretive models that center on identity politics and an ethics of multiculturalism. The volume seeks to demonstrate that materialist methodologies have a greater critical reach than other methods, and that Latino/a literary criticism should be more attuned to interpretive approaches that draw on Marxism and other globalizing social theories. The contributors analyze a wide range of literary works in fiction, poetry, drama, and memoir by writers including Rudolfo Anaya, Gloria Anzaldúa, Daniel Borzutzky, Angie Cruz, Sergio de la Pava, Mónica de la Torre, Sergio Elizondo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rolando Hinojosa, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Óscar Martínez, Cherríe Moraga, Urayoán Noel, Emma Pérez, Pedro Pietri, Miguel Piñero, Ernesto Quiñónez, Ronald Ruiz, Hector Tobar, Rodrigo Toscano, Alfredo Véa, Helena María Viramontes, and others.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Marcial González is Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley. Carlos Gallego is Associate Professor of English, St. Olaf College.
REVIEWS
“Compelling and provocative, this is an impressive and timely collection of essays. Although Marxist approaches have always had an important presence in Latino/a literary studies, this is the first collection that foregrounds such approaches to contemporary texts. The essays range over issues as diverse as mass incarceration, the privatization of public resources, residential segregation, waning state sovereignty, Chicana feminism, and new forms of class conflict. Dialectical Imaginaries will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the field, as well as scholars of other ethnic literatures and American literature more broadly.”
—John Alba Cutler, Northwestern University
“A sophisticated and stimulating book, one that is sure to have a significant impact on literary and cultural studies. . . . The essays dissolve stale debates about race/ethnicity versus class by demonstrating the intrinsic working-class-ness of much Latino/a writing, as well as the value of Marxist class analysis in relation to this body of texts.”
—Barbara Foley, Rutgers University-Newark
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction. Reading U.S. Latino/a Literature through Capitalism — and Vice Versa / Carlos Gallego and Marcial González
Chapter 1. Marxism, Materialism, and Latino/a Literature: What Is at Stake? / Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita
Chapter 2. "When the Union Movement Was Murdered in America": Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Class War in Alfredo Véa's Gods Go Begging / Dennis López
Chapter 3. Quarantine Citizen: Latinx Poetry and the Matter of Capital / Michael Dowdy
Chapter 4. Historical Materialism, The Decolonial Imaginary, and Chicana Feminist Theories in the Flesh / Marcelle Maese
Chapter 5. A World Out of Whack: Criminal (In)justice and Financial Capitalism in Sergio de la Pava's A Naked Singularity / R. Andrés Guzmán
Chapter 6. Pornocapitalism and the Translucent Borders of Social Identity in Deck of Deeds / Carlos Gallego
Chapter 7. Bodega Sold Dreams: Middle-Class Panic and the Cross-over Aesthetics of In the Heights / Elena Machado Sáez
Chapter 8. The Dialectics of Presence and Futurity in the Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Novel / Mathias Nilges
Chapter 9. Crisis and Migration in Posthegemonic Times: Primitive Accumulation and Labor in La Bestia / Abraham Acosta
Chapter 10. A Chicana Dystopian Novel and the Economic Realities of Their Dogs Came with Them / Edén Torres
Chapter 11. Mass Incarceration and the Critique of Capitalism: A Working-Class Viewpoint in Ronald Ruiz's Happy Birthday Jesús / Marcial González
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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Dialectical Imaginaries: Materialist Approaches to U.S. Latino/a Literature in the Age of Neoliberalism
edited by Marcial Gonzalez and Carlos Gallego
University of Michigan Press, 2018 Cloth: 978-0-472-07395-5 eISBN: 978-0-472-12411-4 Paper: 978-0-472-05395-7
Dialectical Imaginaries brings together essays that analyze the effects of class conflict and capitalist ideology on contemporary works of U.S. Latino/a literature. The editors argue that recent global events have compelled contemporary scholars to reexamine traditional interpretive models that center on identity politics and an ethics of multiculturalism. The volume seeks to demonstrate that materialist methodologies have a greater critical reach than other methods, and that Latino/a literary criticism should be more attuned to interpretive approaches that draw on Marxism and other globalizing social theories. The contributors analyze a wide range of literary works in fiction, poetry, drama, and memoir by writers including Rudolfo Anaya, Gloria Anzaldúa, Daniel Borzutzky, Angie Cruz, Sergio de la Pava, Mónica de la Torre, Sergio Elizondo, Juan Felipe Herrera, Rolando Hinojosa, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Óscar Martínez, Cherríe Moraga, Urayoán Noel, Emma Pérez, Pedro Pietri, Miguel Piñero, Ernesto Quiñónez, Ronald Ruiz, Hector Tobar, Rodrigo Toscano, Alfredo Véa, Helena María Viramontes, and others.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
Marcial González is Associate Professor of English, University of California, Berkeley. Carlos Gallego is Associate Professor of English, St. Olaf College.
REVIEWS
“Compelling and provocative, this is an impressive and timely collection of essays. Although Marxist approaches have always had an important presence in Latino/a literary studies, this is the first collection that foregrounds such approaches to contemporary texts. The essays range over issues as diverse as mass incarceration, the privatization of public resources, residential segregation, waning state sovereignty, Chicana feminism, and new forms of class conflict. Dialectical Imaginaries will be an invaluable resource for scholars in the field, as well as scholars of other ethnic literatures and American literature more broadly.”
—John Alba Cutler, Northwestern University
“A sophisticated and stimulating book, one that is sure to have a significant impact on literary and cultural studies. . . . The essays dissolve stale debates about race/ethnicity versus class by demonstrating the intrinsic working-class-ness of much Latino/a writing, as well as the value of Marxist class analysis in relation to this body of texts.”
—Barbara Foley, Rutgers University-Newark
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Contents
Introduction. Reading U.S. Latino/a Literature through Capitalism — and Vice Versa / Carlos Gallego and Marcial González
Chapter 1. Marxism, Materialism, and Latino/a Literature: What Is at Stake? / Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita
Chapter 2. "When the Union Movement Was Murdered in America": Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Class War in Alfredo Véa's Gods Go Begging / Dennis López
Chapter 3. Quarantine Citizen: Latinx Poetry and the Matter of Capital / Michael Dowdy
Chapter 4. Historical Materialism, The Decolonial Imaginary, and Chicana Feminist Theories in the Flesh / Marcelle Maese
Chapter 5. A World Out of Whack: Criminal (In)justice and Financial Capitalism in Sergio de la Pava's A Naked Singularity / R. Andrés Guzmán
Chapter 6. Pornocapitalism and the Translucent Borders of Social Identity in Deck of Deeds / Carlos Gallego
Chapter 7. Bodega Sold Dreams: Middle-Class Panic and the Cross-over Aesthetics of In the Heights / Elena Machado Sáez
Chapter 8. The Dialectics of Presence and Futurity in the Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Novel / Mathias Nilges
Chapter 9. Crisis and Migration in Posthegemonic Times: Primitive Accumulation and Labor in La Bestia / Abraham Acosta
Chapter 10. A Chicana Dystopian Novel and the Economic Realities of Their Dogs Came with Them / Edén Torres
Chapter 11. Mass Incarceration and the Critique of Capitalism: A Working-Class Viewpoint in Ronald Ruiz's Happy Birthday Jesús / Marcial González
Bibliography
Contributors
Index
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