TY - BOOK AU - Rodriguez,Ralph E. TI - Latinx literature unbound: undoing ethnic expectation SN - 9780823279234 AV - PS153 .H56 R63 2018 PY - 2018/// CY - New York PB - Fordham University Press KW - American literature KW - Hispanic American authors KW - History and criticism KW - Hispanic American literature (Spanish) KW - Latin American literature N1 - Includes bibliographical references (pages 161-173) and index; Introduction : What we talk about when we talk about Latinx literature -- Brown like me? The author-function, proper names, and the rise of fictional nobodies -- Confounding the mimetic : the metafictional challenge to representation -- From where I stand : the intimacy and distance of we and you in the short story -- The lyric, or, a radical singularity in Latinx verse -- Conclusion : Thinking beyond limits N2 - "Latina/o Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latina/o. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latina/o"-- ER -