Table of Contents
Part 1 Expanding Latinidades
- 1. Metaphors of Miscegenation: Genre Mixing in Gloria Anzaldua's Borderlands/La Frontera. Shelley Garcia
- 2. . Harriet Beecher Stowe's Cuban Characters: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gertrudis Gomez de Avellaneda, Judie Newman
- Pedro Medina and Suburbano Come to the Fore: Miami as a Cultural Stage and Source of Creativity, Naida Saavedra
- Latin/o American Perspectives of the United States in Sam no es mi tio, Amrita Das
- The Twenty-first Century Politics of Latinidad: Decolonizing Consciousness, Transnational Solidarity, and Global Activism in Demetria Martinez's Mother Tongue, Georgina Guzman
Part 2 Crossing Literary Terrains
6. 6. 'The Waltons, Chicana Style': Queer Familia and Reclaimed Sisterhood in Terri de la Pena's Faults, Cristina Herrera
- Crossing Borders Through Prostitution: Esperanza's Box of Saints by Maria Amparo Escandon and Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande, Carolyn Gonzalez
8. 8. Twenty-first Century Literary Border Formations: Neoliberalism and Domingo Martinez's The Boy Kings of Texas, Magda Garcia
- Capirotada: A Renewed Chicana Spirituality through a Chicana Literary Lens, Gabriella Gutierrez y Muhs
Part 3 Mapping the Body
- Creating a More Compassionate Narrative: Undoing Desconocimiento through Embodied Intimacy in Helena Maria Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus and Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway, Christina Garcia Lopez
- Entering the Mainstream: Chicana Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Drama and Performance, Trevor Boffone
- Slow Lightning: Image, Time, and An Erotics of Reading, Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson
- From Lost Woman to Third Space Mestiza Maternal Subject: La Llorona as a Metaphor of Transformation, Larissa M. Mercado-Lopez
Part 4 Writers on Literary (In)visibility: Voicing Activism from the Margins
14. 14. Extremely Brown and Incredibly Ignored, Alex Espinoza
- Latino Literature for Children and the Lack of Diversity, Gabriela Baeza Ventura