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Edición Instituto Cervantes at FAS - Harvard University

Estudios del Observatorio/Observatorio Studies. 082-12/2022EN  (Trad.)

Abstract: This article proposes the use of the term Latinx as a category for classifying a generation of women authors whose works have been published since the beginning of the 21st century. To justify this classification, it briefly reviews how Latin American and Caribbean diasporas have taken shape in the United States, as well as the origins of the term Latinx. This sets the context for a series of works representative of the trend defined in this paper as Latinx. This analysis aims to show that these works’ transnational nature and the mechanisms for deconstructing the gender binary come together as the constitutive characteristics of a group of women authors who could be considered a literary generation.

Keywords: Latinx, transnational, gender, United States Latino/a literature, Hispanic.

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