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Buenas noches, American culture

DeGuzmán, María.

Buenas noches, American culture Latina/o aesthetics of night / [electronic resource] : María DeGuzmán. - Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2012. - 1 online resource (326 p.) - UPCC book collections on Project MUSE. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction: Critically inhabiting the night -- Dreaded non-identities of night: night and shadows in Chicana/o cultural production -- Queer "tropics" of night and the caribe of "American" (post) modernism -- Postcolonial pre-columbian cosmologies of night in contemporary U.S.-based Central American texts -- Transcultural night work of U.S.-based South American cultural producers -- Conclusion: Two homelands have I: "America" and the night.

9780253001900 0253001900


Night in art.
South American literature--History and criticism.
Central American literature--History and criticism.
Night in literature.
American literature--Hispanic American authors--History and criticism.


Electronic books.

PS153.H56 / D44 2012

810.9/868073