Gómez Menjívar Black in Print

Plotting the Coordinates of Blackness in Central America
1. Auflage 2023
ISBN: 978-1-4384-9283-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: 6 - ePub Watermark

E-Book, Englisch, 294 Seiten, Format (B × H): 152 mm x 229 mm

Reihe: SUNY series, Afro-Latinx Futures

Explores the role of print media in conversations about race and belonging across Central America.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gómez Menjívar, Jennifer Carolina

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Illustrations
Preface: Coastal Stories
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Fictions of Blackness and Their Narrative Power

Part 1. Pacific/Pacífico

1. Disappearing Acts

Part 2. Interior/Centro

2. Strategies of Containment

3. Mesoamerican Core, Kriol Periphery

Part 3. Caribbean/Caribe

4. Multicultural Plots

5. From Caribbean Sea to Digital Shore

Conclusion: The Battlegrounds of Central American Identity
Appendix: Transcript of the “Cocorí” Episode on Radio Ambulante
Notes
Works Cited
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar is Associate Professor of Media Arts at the University of North Texas. She is coeditor (with Héctor Nicolás Ramos Flores) of Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability; editor of Amefrica in Letters: Literary Interventions from Mexico to the Southern Cone; coeditor (with Gloria Elizabeth Chacón) of Indigenous Interfaces: Spaces, Technology, and Social Networks in Mexico and Central America; and coauthor (with William Noel Salmon) of Tropical Tongues: Language Ideologies, Endangerment, and Minority Languages in Belize.