Across Canons

Language, Latin American Immigrant Literature, and the Making of LatinxNarratives

By: Thania Munoz D.

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Paperback | 21 April 2026

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Excavating narrative memories, Across Canons examines literary allusions to a classic Latin American canon that resurface in the work of Latin American writers who live and work in the United States. The immigrant literature of Edmundo Paz Soldan, Alberto Fuguet, and Cristina Rivera Garza from the late 1990s and early 2000s provides an important glimpse into representations of Latin America's relationship with the United States and how immigration has shaped it. Author Thania Munoz D. looks at immigrant experiences impacted by a prism of social and political factors, including free trade agreements, drug trafficking, political violence, massive foreign debt, and economic dependency. The author examines why these writers refuse to identify as immigrants and reject stereotypical portrayals. Throughout, Munoz D. makes the case for a new field within Latinx literature: Latin American immigrant writing in Spanish. She explains why this type of literary work is critical across Latin American, Latinx, and U.S. literature. This book highlights the benefits of comparative, interdisciplinary interpretations that allow readers and scholars to grapple with the realities of a multilingual Latin American-origin literary present and future of the United States.

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"Thania Munoz D. brilliantly illuminates the work of Latin American writers in the United States as a dynamic new field within Latinx and Latin American literatures, and reveals the need for multilingual, comparative readings to understand how this work is reshaping U.S. literature and culture. Against the tendency to detain, imprison, or devalue the cultural contributions of Latin Americans, this book grapples with acclaimed and exciting new writing by Cristina Rivera Garza, Edmundo Paz Soldan, and Alberto Fuguet, with special attention to their treatment of the alienating experience of immigrating to the United States." -Laura Lomas, author of Translating Empire: Jose Marti, Migrant Latino Subjects, and American Modernities "Munoz's application of narrative memory in the analyses of the works of Paz Soldan, Fuguet, and Rivera Garza combines with the different manifestations of their characters' immigration circumstances to provide an interesting and informative read." -Michele Shaul, author of A Survey of the Novels of Ana Castillo: A Contemporary Mexican American Writer

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