Buenas Noches, American Culture
Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
Indiana University Press · Print & ebook · July 9, 2012
Often treated like night itself—both visible and invisible, feared and romanticized—Latina/os make up the largest minority group in the US.
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- Who it’s for
- María DeGuzmán examines how night shapes Latina/o identity across art and literature from the Americas.
- Genres
- Hispanic American Lit Crit, Caribbean & Latin American Criticism, Hispanic American Studies
- Published
- Indiana University Press, July 9, 2012
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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.
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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.
Night and Identity
María DeGuzmán examines how night shapes Latina/o identity across art and literature from the Americas.
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- Representations of night across art and literature
- Readings through nationhood, sexuality, and human rights
Expect
- Novels, poetry, essays, photography, and film
- Perspectives on exoticism and nationhood
Where it sits
| Caribbean & Latin American Criticism | 70% |
|---|---|
| Hispanic American Lit Crit | 50% |
| Hispanic American Studies | 38% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- Caribbean & Latin American Collections
- Caribbean & Latin American Criticism
- Authors
- María DeGuzmán
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Published
- July 9, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Reading lane
- Caribbean & Latin American Collections