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Buenas Noches, American Culture
Latina/o Aesthetics of Night
María DeGuzmán
Indiana University Press · Print & ebook · July 9, 2012
Reading lane: Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
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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- Authors
- María DeGuzmán
- Publisher
- Indiana University Press
- Published
- July 9, 2012
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American · Hispanic American Literary Criticism
- Reading lane
- Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American
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About This Book
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. She takes as her subject novels, short stories, poetry, essays, non-ficti...
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