Latinx Revolutionary Horizons

Renee Hudson is Assistant Professor of English at Chapman University.

Introduction: Forming Revolutions 1 PART I - LATINX REVOLUTIONARY CONSCIOUSNESS 1 Captive Revolutions: Revolutionary Consciousness as Racial Consciousness in Ruiz de Burton and Cisneros 33 PART II - LATINX REVOLUTIONARY PEDAGOGIES 2 Romancing Revolution: The Queer Future of National Romance in Rizal, Rosca, and Hagedorn 69 3 Teaching Revolution: The Latinx Bildungsroman in Alvarez and Diaz 100 PART III - LATINX REVOLUTIONARY IMAGINARIES 4 Retconning Revolution: The Solidarity of Form in Garcia, Barnet, and Avellaneda 133 5 Speculative Revolutions: Otrxs Latinidades in Delany and Silko 159 Coda: Is the X a Commons? 191 Acknowledgments 201 Notes 205 Bibliography 255 Index 281

One of the true achievements of Latinx Revolutionary Horizons is its demonstration of just how far Latinx literary scholarship has come. . . Hudson builds on the work of these theorists of the Latinx experience to provide another horizon for Latinx literary scholarship--one in which the reader takes center stage, in which revolution is possible not only through the works we read but also through the act of reading itself.-- "Los Angeles Review of Books" By reading contemporary Latinx literature with key 19th century texts of Latin American literature, Hudson demonstrates Latinx literature is continental in form as well as content, the consequence of layered conquests, racial ideologies, and imperialisms. The slave narrative, the testimonio, the dictator novel, guerilla conversion novels, all made significant contributions to the field of Latinx letters. Hudson moves beyond a New Historicism towards a theory of hemispheric aesthetics that are revolutionary precisely because they are place-based, and fractured by the multi-racial, multi-ethnic, multi-lingual realities the Spanish and British encountered upon their arrival in the 'new world.'---Maria Josefina Saldana-Portillo, author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies Across Mexico and the United States Richly textured with evocative and eloquent analyses, Latinx Revolutionary Horizons mobilizes an innovative and wide-ranging temporal and geographic archive to expand how we understand and imagine revolution in Latinx America and beyond.---Jennifer Harford Vargas, author of Forms of Dictatorship: Power, Narrative, and Authoritarianism in the Latina/o Novel Thoroughly researched, and beautifully written, this book offers a convincing argument that Latinx revolutionary horizons work in counterintuitive, non-sequential, and non-linear ways across time and space. This is a powerful and thoughtful intervention into the field of Latinx Studies.---David J. Vazquez, author of Triangulations: Narrative Strategies for Navigating Latino Identity