Walk the barrio: the streets of twenty-first-century transnational Latinx literature

Introduction: My hometown, Silver Spring, and the method of Walk the barrio

Part I. West : Mexican American East Los Angeles. Californios to Californians : a brief history of Mexican American Los Angeles. "A world built on cement" : the El Monte aesthetic in Salvador Plascencia's The people of paper ; "Earthquakes or earthmovers" : the East L.A. Barrio and Helena María Viramontes's Their dogs came with them

Part II. West : Central American Downtown Los Angeles. Displacement by and as war : Central American L.A. immigration, 1980-2010. "Los Angeles was the problem" : the war for space in Héctor Tobar's The tattooed soldier ; "The blackouts of a tiny country" : the art of William Archila's Salvadoran exile

Part III. East : Dominican New York City. "The one from the other life" : the particularities of Dominican transnationalism. "No promises can survive that sea" : diasporic identity in Junot Díaz's This is how you lose her ; "Washington Heights is like a prison sentence" : female surveillance in Angie Cruz's Soledad

Part IV. South : Cuban Miami. "Brown sugar histories" : Cuba and the United States in the twentieth century ; "Why don't I got a street?" : Little Havana in Richard Blanco's queer Cuban American Bildungsroman

Conclusion : Your hometown and other barriographies.