1st Edition

The Persistence of Racialization Literature, Gender, and Ethnicity

By Luz Angélica Kirschner Copyright 2025
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge

The Persistence of Racialization: Literature, Gender, and Ethnicity represents an attempt at unpacking the legacy of modern ideas of race initiated and established during the conquest of the Americas and their current relevance for literary criticism of ethnic writing, also known as minority writing. The book challenges ideas of a post-racial globalized world to question the tendency to devalue... Read more

Acknowledgments

Introduction: The Persistence of Racialization

1 Decolonizing Ethnic Literary Criticism: The Implications of Race

2 Ana María Shua’s and Reina Roffé’s Short Stories: Gender and Power in an Unevenly Globalized World

3 Cartographies of Shifting Strategies: The Writing of Seyran Ateş and Yadé Kara

4 Sigrid Nunez’ Salvation City and Gish Jen’ World and Town: The Reparative Power of Endings That Are Not Over

5 Conclusion

Index

Biography

Luz Angélica Kirschner is Associate Professor in the School of American and Global Studies at South Dakota State University. She is the editor and author of the volumes Expanding Latinidad: An Inter-American Perspective (2012) and coeditor and author of Human Rights in the Americas (2021). Some of her publications have appeared in the The Cambridge History of Latina/o Literature (2018), The Routledge Handbook to the History and Society of the Americas (2019), and The Routledge Handbook to Culture and Media of the Americas (2020).