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Piecing together the fractured identity of US Latinos
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MARJORIE MAYO recommends an accessible and unsettling novel that uses a true incident of death in the Channel to raise questions of wider moral responsibility
MIK SABIERS wallows in a night of political punk and funk that fires both barrels at Trump
Reasonable radicalism, death in Abu Dhabi, locked-room romance, and sleuthing in the Blitz
SIMON DUFF recommends a new album from renowned composer and oud player Anour Brahem.
JAMES WALSH has a great night in the company of basketball players, quantum physicists and the exquisite timing of Rosie Jones
Latinx: The New Force in American Politics And Culture
by Ed Morales
(Verso, £20)
LATINX ( “La-Teen-Ex”) is the gender-neutral word for those in the US of Latin American origin or descent. By 2050 they will account for a quarter of the US population — at the moment, there are around 58 million of them.
According to Ed Morales in this book, the term Latinx term describes “the in-between space in which they live, which allows [the construction of] self-images that include a wide variety of racial, national and even gender-based identifications.”
He argues that the Latinx’s political and linguistic empowerment, as well as their view of race inherited from nation-building ideologies, is not only altering the balance of forces in a growing number of states but is posing narratives that challenge and resist Anglo-US paradigms.
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A novel by Argentinian Jorge Consiglio, a personal dictionary by Uruguayan Ida Vitale, and poetry by Mexican Homero Aridjis
Travelogue/reportage by Argentinean Maria Sonia Cristoff, and poetry by Peruvian Gaston Fernandez and Puerto Rican Cristina Perez Diaz
A pamphlet by British Latinx poet Patrick Romero McCafferty, poetry by Anglo-Argentinian Miguel Cullen, and a book of conjuring poems by Mexican Pedro Serrano
LEO BOIX selects the best books of fiction, poetry, and non-fiction written by Latinx and Latin American authors published this year
