The Afro-Latino Memoir: Race, Ethnicity, and Literary Interculturalism

Author/Contributor(s):	Masiki, Trent
Publisher:	University of North Carolina Press
Date:	08/29/2023
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

"Despite their literary and cultural significance, Afro-Latino memoirs have been marginalized in both Latino and African American studies. Trent Masiki remedies this problem by bringing critical attention to the understudied African American influences in Afro-Latino memoirs published after the advent of the Black Arts movement. Masiki shows how Afro-Latino memoir writers often turn to the African American experience as a model for articulating their Afro-Latinidad. African American literary production, expressive culture, political ideology, and religiosity shaped Afro-Latino subjectivity more profoundly than typically imagined between the post-war and post-soul eras"--