Contemporary U.S. Latino/ A Literary Criticism

Chapter 1 Introduction New Waves in U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism

Chapter 2 The Latino Scapegoat: Knowledge through Death in Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates and Junot Díaz

Chapter 3 Alternative Visions and the Souvenir Collectible in Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints

Chapter 4 Spirited Identities: Creole Religions, Creole/U.S. Latina Literature, and the Initiated Reader

Chapter 5 Racial Spills and Disfigured Faces in Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Junot Díaz’s “Ysrael”

Chapter 6 The Once and Future Latino: Notes Toward a Literary History todavía para llegar

Chapter 7 Hurricanes, Magic, Science, and Politics in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters

Chapter 8 Latin Americans and Latinos: Terms of Engagement

Chapter 10 “So Your Social is Real?” Vernacular Theorists and Economic Transformation

Chapter 11 Oscar Hijuelos: Writer of Work

Chapter 12 Mass Production of the Heartland: Cuban American Lesbian Camp in Achy Obejas’s “Wrecks”