Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture - Couverture souple

Jiménez García, Marilisa

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1496832485 ISBN 13 : 9781496832481

Editeur : University Press of Mississippi, 2021

Synopsis

During the early colonial encounter, children’s books were among the first kinds of literature produced by US writ-ers introducing the new colony, its people, and the US’s role as a twentieth-century colonial power to the public. Subse-quently, youth literature and media were important tools of Puerto Rican cultural and educational elite institutions and Puerto Rican revolutionary thought as a means of negotiating US assimilation and upholding a strong Latin American, Caribbean national stance.

In Side by Side: US Empire, Puerto Rico, and the Roots of American Youth Literature and Culture, author Marilisa Jiménez García focuses on the contributions of the Puerto Rican community to American youth, approaching Latinx literature as a transnational space that provides a critical lens for examining the lingering consequences of US and Spanish colonialism for US communities of color. Through analysis of texts typically outside traditional Latinx or literary studies such as young adult literature, textbooks, television programming, comics, music, curriculum, and youth movements, Side by Side represents the only comprehensive study of the contri-butions of Puerto Ricans to American youth literature and culture, as well as the only comprehensive study into the role of youth literature and culture in Puerto Rican literature and thought.

Considering recent debates over diver-sity in children’s and young adult literature and media and the strained relationship between Puerto Rico and the US, Jiménez García's timely work encourages us to question who constitutes the expert and to resist the homogenization of Latinxs, as well as other marginalized communities, that has led to the erasure of writers, scholars, and artists.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Marilisa Jiménez García is assistant professor of English and Latinx studies at Lehigh University in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University Press of Mississippi
• Date d'édition: 2021
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1496832485
• ISBN 13: 9781496832481
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 260
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• Personne responsable: non disponible