(Re)Mapping the Latina/O Literary Landscape

Book Overview

Table of Contents

Part 1 Expanding Latinidades

1. "Metaphors of Miscegenation: Genre Mixing in Gloria Anzald?a's Borderlands/La Frontera." Shelley Garc?a
2. . "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Cuban Characters: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gertrudis G?mez 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 t?o," Amrita Das "The Twenty-first Century Politics of Latinidad: Decolonizing Consciousness, Transnational Solidarity, and Global Activism in Demetria Mart?nez's Mother Tongue," Georgina Guzm?n

Part 2 Crossing Literary Terrains

6. 6. "'The Waltons, Chicana Style': Queer Familia and Reclaimed Sisterhood in Terri de la Pe?a's Faults, " Cristina Herrera

"Crossing Borders Through Prostitution: Esperanza's Box of Saints by Mar?a Amparo Escand?n and Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande," Carolyn Gonz?lez

8. 8. "Twenty-first Century Literary Border Formations: Neoliberalism and Domingo Mart?nez's The Boy Kings of Texas," Magda Garc?a

"Capirotada: A Renewed Chicana Spirituality through a Chicana Literary Lens," Gabriella Guti?rrez y Muhs

Part 3 Mapping the Body

"Creating a More Compassionate Narrative: Undoing Desconocimiento through Embodied Intimacy in Helena Mar?a Viramontes' Under the Feet of Jesus and Luis Alberto Urrea's The Devil's Highway," Christina Garc?a L?pez "Entering the Mainstream: Chicana Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Drama and Performance," Trevor Boffone "Slow Lightning: Image, Time, and An Erotics of Reading," Eliza Rodr?guez y Gibson "From Lost Woman to Third Space Mestiza Maternal Subject: La Llorona as a Metaphor of Transformation," Larissa M. Mercado-L?pez

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

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1349956716
• ISBN13: 9781349956715
• Release Date: May 2018
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 258 Pages
• Weight: 0.74 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.8" x 8.3"