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32 - Trauma, Translation, and Migration in the Crossfire of the Americas

The Intersection of Latina/o and South American Literatures

from Part IV - Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  16 February 2018

By
Juanita Heredia
Edited by
John Morán González  and
Laura Lomas
John Morán González
Affiliation:
University of Texas, Austin
Laura Lomas
Affiliation:
Rutgers University, New Jersey
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Summary

This chapter examines a wide array of literature by Latina/o authors of South American background from the 1970s into the twenty-first century. By using a transnational paradigm, I argue that these authors are in constant dialogue between their respective South American (heritage) nations and the United States in the construction of a diasporic migratory identity. As a consequence of political and/or economic turmoil due to civil wars and dictatorships in their South American nations, many authors intervene in these historical processes by inserting an alternative voice in their texts. As cultural and linguistic translators many also represent a modern vision of gender, race, and sexuality in a critique of South American as well as U.S. conventions. South American descent/origin authors form part of a dynamic group of world practitioners who are constantly shifting the national boundaries of what it means to be a Latino/a author in today’s global age.
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The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 657 - 673
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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