Book contents
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020
- Latinx Literature In Transition
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Shifting Coordinates
- Part II Transforming Genres
- Part III Emerging Media
- Chapter 12 Latinx Melodrama
- Chapter 13 Cyberspace (S)exiles
- Chapter 14 Sonic Latinidades in Latinx Theater and Performance
- Chapter 15 Comics Go to School
- Chapter 16 Video Gaming Latinidad
- Part IV Theoretical Turns
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Chapter 13 - Cyberspace (S)exiles
Latin@ Digital Textuality for the Twenty-First Century
from Part III - Emerging Media
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 19 June 2025
Book contents
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020
- Latinx Literature In Transition
- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I Shifting Coordinates
- Part II Transforming Genres
- Part III Emerging Media
- Chapter 12 Latinx Melodrama
- Chapter 13 Cyberspace (S)exiles
- Chapter 14 Sonic Latinidades in Latinx Theater and Performance
- Chapter 15 Comics Go to School
- Chapter 16 Video Gaming Latinidad
- Part IV Theoretical Turns
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter considers the promises and potential pitfalls of the digital era for Latino/a/@/x/e literature. It begins with an exploration of the multiple iterations of the virtual project/website El Puerto Rican Embassy over the last twenty-nine years as a way to think with evolving attitudes about Puerto Rican nationalism and its relationship to Nuyorican identity. The conversation then shifts to think about the potential dangers of relying on digital archives as safe repositories for Latino/a/@/x/e history. After all, with these new forms of digital power, come new responsibilities, including the need for a steady stream of resources. As exciting as the possibilities for redefining Latin@s online may be, the precarity that Adela Vázquez, Jaime Cortez, and Pato Hebert’s queer, Cuban comic Sexile (2004) currently faces makes clear that the expectation that cyberspace serve as a catchall for the margins may foster a false sense of security that risks reproducing new forms of digital exile.
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- Latinx Literature in Transition, 1992–2020 , pp. 240 - 257Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2025
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