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Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
Maria Deguzman
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Description for Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
paperback. Explores night and darkness in Latina /o art and literature Num Pages: 326 pages, 3 b&w illus. BIC Classification: 1KBB; 1KL; GTB; JFC; JFSL4; JHMC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 23. Weight in Grams: 454.
Often treated like night itself—both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized—Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work, María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean, Colombia, Central and South America, and the US, calling into question night's effect on the formation of identity for Latina/os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels, short stories, poetry, essays, non-fiction, photo-fictions, photography, and film, and examines these texts through the lenses of nationhood, sexuality, human rights, exoticism, among others.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
326
Condition
New
Number of Pages
326
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253001894
SKU
V9780253001894
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About Maria Deguzman
María DeGuzmán is Professor of English and Comparative Literature and Director of Latina/o Studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is author of Spain's Long Shadow: The Black Legend, Off-Whiteness, and Anglo American Empire.
Reviews for Buenas Noches, American Culture: Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
DeGuzmán . . . offers new insights into how representations of night have been employed to form (impose) a Latino identity within and beyond the borders of the US. Juxtaposing historical illustrations with modern literary and artistic depictions of night from Central and South America, the Caribbean, and the US, she compellingly argues that there are new trends in representations ... Read more