(Re)Mapping the Latina/O Literary Landscape by Larissa Mercado-Lopez
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(Re)Mapping the Latina/O Literary Landscape

(Re)Mapping the Latina/O Literary Landscape


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Table of Contents

Part 1 Expanding Latinidades

  1. 1. "Metaphors of Miscegenation: Genre Mixing in Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera." Shelley García
  2. 2. . "Harriet Beecher Stowe's Cuban Characters: Uncle Tom's Cabin and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda," Judie Newman

  1. "Pedro Medina and Suburbano Come to the Fore: Miami as a Cultural Stage and Source of Creativity," Naida Saavedra
  2. "Latin/o American Perspectives of the United States in Sam no es mi tío," Amrita Das
  3. "The Twenty-first Century Politics of Latinidad: Decolonizing Consciousness, Transnational Solidarity, and Global Activism in Demetria Martínez's Mother Tongue," Georgina Guzmán

Part 2 Crossing Literary Terrains

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

  1. "Crossing Borders Through Prostitution: Esperanza's Box of Saints by María Amparo Escandón and Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande," Carolyn González

8. 8. "Twenty-first Century Literary Border Formations: Neoliberalism and Domingo Martínez's The Boy Kings of Texas," Magda García

  1. "Capirotada: A Renewed Chicana Spirituality through a Chicana Literary Lens," Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs

Part 3 Mapping the Body

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

Part 4 Writers on Literary (In)visibility: Voicing Activism from the Margins

14. 14. "Extremely Brown and Incredibly Ignored," Alex Espinoza

  1. "Latino Literature for Children and the Lack of Diversity," Gabriela Baeza Ventura


About the Author:

Cristina Herrera is Associate Professor in the Department of Chicano and Latin American Studies at California State University, Fresno, USA. She is the author of Contemporary Chicana Literature: (Re)Writing the Maternal Script and has published in Chicana/Latina Studies, Confluencia, and Journal of Caribbean Literatures.

Larissa M. Mercado-López is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Women's Studies at California State University, Fresno, USA. Mercado-López is the co-editor of El Mundo Zurdo 3 and El Mundo Zurdo 4, and has published in Diálogo, Chicana/Latina Studies, and collections from Demeter Press.


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9781349949007
  • Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
  • Publisher Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
  • Depth: 25
  • Height: 220 mm
  • No of Pages: 258
  • Series Title: Literatures of the Americas
  • Weight: 508 gr
  • ISBN-10: 1349949000
  • Publisher Date: 03 Aug 2016
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Edition: 1st ed. 2016
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Spine Width: 20 mm
  • Width: 154 mm


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