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Publishing Latinidad: Latinx Literary and Intellectual Production, 1880-1960

Publishing Latinidad: Latinx Literary and Intellectual Production, 1880-1960

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Literary CriticismLatino Studies

ISBN10: 0816554366
ISBN13: 9780816554362
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
Published: Apr 1 2025
Pages: 282
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.87 Width: 5.98 Depth: 8.98
Language: English

Publishing Latinidad brings to light the overlooked contributions of early Latinx writers and intellectuals, offering a fresh perspective on their roles in shaping American literary and cultural landscapes.

Jose O. Fernandez meticulously examines the works of notable figures like José Martí, Arturo Schomburg, Jesús Colón, José de la Luz Sáenz, Adela Sloss-Vento, and Américo Paredes, illuminating their innovative approaches to circumventing exclusionary practices in the publishing world. He demonstrates how these writers and intellectuals entered literary, cultural, and intellectual discourses through alternative modes of literary production: crónicas, translations, paratexts, bibliographies, archival practices, sketches, diaries, biographies, unpublished fiction, and scholarly monographs. Through these examples, Fernandez situates Latinx literary production in this time period within the broader context of racial and ethnic solidarity movements in the United States.

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