(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape

Chapter 1 Genre Matters: Tracing Metaphors of Miscegenation in Genre History, Derrida’s “The Law of Genre” and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands / La Frontera

Chapter 2 Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Cuban characters: Uncle Tom ’ s Cabin and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda’s Sab

Chapter 3 Pedro Medina and Suburbano Come to the Fore: Miami as a Cultural Stage and Source of Creativity

Chapter 4 The Imagined World of Latin/o America in Sam no es mi tío

Chapter 5 The Twenty-First Century Politics of Latinidad : Decolonizing Consciousness, Transnational Solidarity, and Global Activism in Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue

Chapter 6 “‘ The Waltons , Chicana-Style’: Queer Familia and Reclaimed Sisterhood in Terri de la Peña’s Faults ”

Chapter 7 Crossing Borders Through Prostitution: Esperanza ’ s Box of Saints by María Amparo Escandón and Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande

Chapter 8 The (Im)Materiality of Race: The Representation and Circulation of Brownness in the Liberal Media and Domingo Martinez’s The Boy Kings of Texas

Chapter 9 Capirotada: A Renewed Chicana Spirituality Through a Chicana Literary Lens

Chapter 10 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

Chapter 11 Entering the Mainstream: Chicana Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Drama and Performance

Chapter 12 Slow Lightning: Image, Time, and an Erotics of Reading

Chapter 13 From Lost Woman to Third Space Mestiza Maternal Subject: La Llorona as a Metaphor of Transformation

Chapter 14 Extremely Brown and Incredibly Ignored

Chapter 15 Latino Literature for Children and the Lack of Diversity