Dr. Renee Hudson
Biography
Latinx Revolutionary Horizons: Form and Futurity in the Americas argues that Latinx revolutionary horizons are a hemispheric project in which contemporary Latinx authors return to earlier moments of revolution to theorize the limits of liberation in the present and point toward more liberatory futures. I pair nineteenth-century authors, who reflect the Latin American revolutions of the nineteen-century, with contemporary Latinx authors to historicize contemporary Latinx literature and resistance. In doing so, I illuminate how the confluence of Spanish colonization and U.S. occupation led to the creation of unique genres capable of apprehending the unique historical circumstances of the Americas: the captivity narrative, the guerrilla conversion narrative, the Latinx dictator novel, testimonio, and magical realism. By focusing on colonization over continent, I trace transnational connections that defy literary studies models and illuminate networks of affiliation. In thinking transhistorically, I uncover similar preoccupations about revolution and liberation that manifest on the level of genre and write against genre studies’ tendency toward deracination and reorient literary analyses of revolution towards a consideration of aesthetic form.
Articles
- “Guerrilla Conversions in Jessica Hagedorn and José Rizal: The Queer Future of National Romance,” Modern Fiction Studies 62.2 (Summer 2016): 330-349.
- “Former Futures and Absent Histories in María Cristina Mena, Rosaura Sánchez, and Beatrice Pita,” CR:The New Centennial Review 19.2 (Fall 2019): 69-92.
- “Introduction: The Futures of Latinx Speculative Fictions,” ASAP/J cluster, December 2019.
- “Roswell, New Mexico and the Dead Futures of Latinx Speculative Fictions,” ASAP/J cluster, December, 2019.
Book Chapters
- “Racing Latinidad,” Cambridge Companion to Race and American Literature, ed. John Ernest. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming)
- “Brown Modernism from María Cristina Mena to Gloria Anzaldúa,” Latinx Literary Modernities, 1898-1992 (Latinx Literature in Transition Vol. 2), eds. Marissa López and John Alba Cutler. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. (forthcoming)
Editorial Work
- Cluster Editor, “The Futures of Latinx Speculative Fictions,” ASAP/J, December 2019.
Book Reviews
- “Adam Silvera’s Infinity Cycle and the Superhero Quandary,” Los Angeles Review of Books, May 2021.
- “Isabel Ibañez’s Inkasisa Series and the Failure of the ‘Woke’ Conversion Narrative,” Los Angeles Review of Books, April 2021.
- "Border Waters: On Ayendy Bonifacio's To the River, We Are Migrants, " Los Angeles Review of Books, January 2021.
- “Latinidad in the Age of Trump: On Ricardo Ortiz’s Latinx Literature Now,” Los Angeles Review of Books, March 2020.
- “Jennine Capó Crucet and Post-Trump Latinx Literature,” Los Angeles Review of Books, September 2019.
- “The Americas of Carmen Giménez Smith,” Los Angeles Review of Books, August 2019.
- “Abject Performances: Aesthetic Strategies in Latino Cultural Production,” ASAP/J, April 2019.
- “Situating the Enslaved: Eunsong Kim’s Gospel of Regicide and the Politics of Allyship,” Los Angeles Review of Books, December 2017.
- “King Comus and the Elasticity of the Neo-Slave Narrative,” Los Angeles Review of Books, November 2017.
- Review of John D. “Rio” Riofrio’s Continental Shifts: Migration, Representation, and the Struggle for Justice in Latin(o) America and John Alba Cutler’s The Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature Justice in Latin(o) America and John Alba Cutler’s The Ends of Assimilation: The Formation of Chicano Literature. MELUS 43.2 (Summer 2018): 227-231.
- Review of The Latino Nineteenth Century, edited by Rodrigo Lazo and Jesse Alemán. MELUS 43.3 (Fall 2018): 168-170.
Other
- “Hemispheric Studies.” Oxford Bibliographies in Literary and Critical Theory. Ed. Eugene O’Brien. New York: Oxford University Press. January 2018.