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In Latinx Revolutionary Horizons, Renee Hudson theorizes a liberatory latinidad that is not yet here and conceptualizes a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution. Rather than viewing Latinx as solely a category of identification, she argues for an expansive, historicized sense of the term that illuminates its political potential.
Claiming the “x” in Latinx as marking the suspension and tension between how Latin American descended people identify and the future politics the “x” points us toward, Hudson contends that latinidad can signal a politics grounded in shared struggles and histories rather than merely a mode of identification. In this way, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons reads against current calls for cancelling latinidad based on its presumed anti-Black and anti-Indigenous framework. Instead, she examines the not-yet-here of latinidad to investigate the connection between the revolutionary history of the Americas and the creation of new genres in the hemisphere, from conversion narratives and dictator novels to neoslave narratives and testimonios.
ISBN
9781531507190
Publication Date
5-7-2024
Publisher
Fordham University Press
City
New York, NY
Disciplines
Chicana/o Studies | Ethnic Studies | Latin American Languages and Societies | Latin American Studies | Latina/o Studies | Race and Ethnicity
Recommended Citation
Hudson, Renee. Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas. Fordham University Press, 2024.
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Fordham University Press
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