Genre matters

tracing metaphors of miscegenation in genre history, Derrida's "the law of genre" and Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La frontera

Shelley García

3-20

Harriet Beecher Stowe's Cuban characters

Uncle Tom's cabin and Gertrudis Gómez de Avellaneda's Sab

Judie Newman

21-34

Pedro Medina and suburbano come to the fore

Miami as a cultural stage and source of creativity

Naida Saavedra

35-52

The imagined world of Latin/o America in Sam no es mi tío

Amrita Das

53-72

The twenty-first century politics of latinidad

decolonizing consciousness, transnational solidarity, and global activism in Demetria Martínez's mother tongue

Georgina Guzmán

73-92

""The Waltons, chicana-style"

queer familia and reclaimed sisterhood in Terri de la Peña's faults"

Cristina Herrera

95-110

Crossing borders through prostitution

esperanza's box of saints by María Amparo Escandón and across a hundred mountains by Reyna Grande

Carolyn Gonzalez

111-126

The (im)materiality of race

the representation and circulation of brownness in the liberal media and Domingo Martinez's the boy kings of texas

Magda García

127-138

Capirotada

a renewed Chicana spirituality through a Chicana literary lens

Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs

139-158

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

161-176

Entering the mainstream

Chicana lesbian subjectivity in contemporary drama and performance

Trevor Boffone

177-190

Slow lightning

image, time, and an erotics of reading

Eliza Rodriguez y Gibson

191-207

From lost woman to third space mestiza Maternal subject

La llorona as a metaphor of transformation

Larissa M. Mercado-López

209-226

Extremely brown and incredibly ignored

Alex Espinoza

229-239

Latino literature for children and the lack of diversity

Gabriela Baeza Ventura

241-254