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PAUL ALLATSON
Latino Dreams.
Transcultural Traffic and the U.S. National Imaginary.
Amsterdam/New York, NY 2002. 367 pp. (Portada Hispánica 14)
ISBN: 90-420-0804-0 € 70,-/US$ 70.-
A welcome addition to the fields of Latino and (trans-)American cultural and
literary studies, Latino Dreams focuses on a selection of Latino narratives,
published between the mid-1980s and the mid-1990s, that may be said to
traffic in the U.S.A.’s attendant myths and governing cultural logics. The
selection includes novels by authors who have received little academic
attention—Abraham Rodriguez, Achy Obejas, and Benjamin Alire Sáenz—along
with underattended texts from more renowned writers—Rosario Ferré, Coco
Fusco, and Guillermo Gómez-Peña. Latino Dreams takes a transcultural
approach in order to raise questions of subaltern subordination and
domination, and the resistant capacities of cultural production. The
analysis explores how the selected narratives deploy specific narrative
tactics, and a range of literary and other cultural capital, in order to
question and reform the U.S.A.’s imaginary coordinates. In these texts,
moreover, national imperatives are complicated by recourse to feminist,
queer, panethnic, postcolonial, or transnational agendas. Yet the analysis
also recognizes instances in which the counter-narrative will is frustrated:
the narratives may provide signs of the U.S.A.’s hegemonic resilience in the
face of imaginary disavowal.
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