Violentologies

Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

Av B. V. Olguín, USA) Olguin, B. V. (Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English, Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English, University of California, Santa Barbara, B V Olguín

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Violentologies: Violence, Identity, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities, or Latinidades, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of violence studies known as violentología, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence, this book adapts the neologism "violentology" as a heuristic device and epistemic category to map the salience of violence in Latina/o history, life, and culture in the U.S. and globally.Based on one hundred primary texts and archival documents from an expansive range of Latina/o communities - Chicana/o, Puerto Rican, Cuban American, Dominican American, Salvadoran American, Guatemalan American, and various mixed-heritages and transversal hybridities throughout the world - Violentologies features multiple generations of Latinx combatants, wartime non-combatants, and "peacetime" civilians whose identities and ideologies extend through, and also far beyond, familiar Latinidades. Based on this discrepant archive, Violentologies articulates a contrapuntal assessment of the inchoate, contradictory, and complex range of violence-based Latina/o ontologies and epistemologies, and corresponding negotiations of power, or ideologies, pursuant to an expansive and meta-critical Pan-Latina/o methodology and, ultimately, an anti-identitarian Post-Latina/o paradigm.

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Utgivningsdatum2021-01-05
Mått163 x 27 x 241 mm
Vikt774 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieOxford Studies in American Literary History
Antal sidor408
FörlagOUP OXFORD
ISBN9780198863090

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B. V. Olguín is the Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English, and Director of the Global Latinidades Project, at the University of California, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University, and is a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow, and National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellow. He previously served on English Department faculties at Cornell University and the University of Texas at San Antonio, with visiting appointments in the Center for Mexican American Studies at the University of Texas at Austin. Olguín is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o History, Culture, and Politics (University of Texas Press, 2010).

PrefaceFrom Fort Knox, Kentucky to Havana, Cuba: Testimonial Reflections on Race, War, and RevolutionIntroductionViolentologies: Violence, Ideology, and Supra-Latina/o OntologiesPart I: Warfare and Latina/o Archetypes1: Caballeros and Indians: Land, War, and the Indian Question in Latina/o Autobiography, Historical Fiction, and Popular Culture2: Macho Man: Homosocial Soldiering and Ideological Dissensus in Mexican American WWII Memoir, Theater, and FilmPart II: Violence and the Global Latinidades3: Latina/o-Asian Encounters: Transversal Syntheses in Asia, the "Orient," and the Ummah in Latina/o Wartime Narrative, Travelogue, Spoken Word, and Hip Hop4: Violence and the TransNational Question: Regionalism, Nationalism, and Internationalism in Latina/o War Literature5: Militarized Mestizajes: Combat, Transculturation, and Imperialism in Latina/o Life Writing from the War on TerrorConclusionThe Latinx Mixtape: Violentologies, the End of Latina/o Studies, and Post-Latina/o Futures

Critics of U.S. Latinidades have sustained an overt or covert ethnonationalist perspective that Olguín exposes by undertaking a violentological archival, interpretive, political, and theoretical project that sustains an anti-imperialist and anti-settler colonialist critique. He reads against the grain of a patriarchal teleological ideology, following the lead of groundbreaking Chicana and Latina feminists, and thus further breaks down the logic of violentology. Olguín's critique of the field is a magnificent tour de force, and he challenges all of us to undertake a paradigm shift. After reading his arguments throughout texts I strongly agree with him.