(Re)mapping the Latina/o Literary Landscape

<p>Part 1 Expanding Latinidades.- “Metaphors of Miscegenation: Genre Mixing in Gloria Anzaldúa’s Borderlands/La Frontera.” Shelley García.- “Harriet Beecher Stowe’s Cuban Characters: Uncle Tom’s Cabin and Gertrudis Gómez 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 tío,” Amrita Das.- 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.- “‘The Waltons, Chicana Style’: Queer Familia and Reclaimed Sisterhood in Terri de la Peña’s Faults” Cristina Herrera.- “Crossing Borders Through Prostitution: Esperanza’s Box of Saints by María Amparo Escandón and Across a Hundred Mountains by Reyna Grande,” Carolyn González.- “Twenty-first Century Literary Border Formations: Neoliberalism and&nbsp;Domingo Martínez's&nbsp;The Boy Kings of Texas,” Magda García.- “Capirotada: A Renewed Chicana Spirituality through a Chicana Literary Lens,” Gabriella Gutiérrez y Muhs.- Part 3 Mapping the Body.- “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.- “Entering the Mainstream: Chicana Lesbian Subjectivity in Contemporary Drama and Performance,” Trevor Boffone.- “Slow Lightning:&nbsp;Image, Time, and An Erotics of Reading,” Eliza Rodríguez y Gibson.- “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.- “Extremely Brown and Incredibly Ignored,” Alex Espinoza.- “Latino Literature for Children and the Lack of Diversity,” Gabriela Baeza Ventura</p>