The Cambridge history of Latina/o American literature

Machine generated contents note: List of contributors; Acknowledgements: Introduction; Part I. Rereading the Colonial Archive: Transculturation and Conflict, 1492-1810: 1. Indigenous Herencias: Creoles, mestizaje, and nations before nationalism; 2. Performing to a captive audience: dramatic encounters in the borderlands of empire; 3. The tricks of the weak: Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz and the feminist temporality of Latina literature; 4. Rethinking the colonial Latinx literary imaginary: a comparative and decolonial research agenda; 5. The historical and imagined cultural geographies of Latinidad; Part II. The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature: The Literary Emergence of a Trans-American Imaginary, 1783-1912: 6. Whither Latinidad?: the trajectories of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o literature; 7. Father Felix Varela and the emergence of an organized Latina/o minority in early nineteenth-century New York City; 8. Transamerican New Orleans: Latino literature of the Gulf of Mexico, from the Spanish colonial period to post-Katrina; 9. Trajectories of exchange: toward histories of Latino literature; 10. Narratives of displacement in places that once were Mexican; 11. Latina feminism, Latina racism and unspeakable violence: travel narratives, novels of reform, and histories of genocide and lynching; 12. Jose Marti, comparative reading, and the emergence of Latino modernity in gilded-age New York; 13. Afro-Latinidad: phoenix rising from a hemisphere's racist flames; Part III. Negotiating Literary Modernity: Between Colonial Subjectivity and National Citizenship, 1910-1979: 14. Oratory, memoir, and theater: performances of race and class in the early twentieth-century Latina/o public sphere; 15. Literary revolutions in the borderlands: transnational dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and its diaspora in the United States; 16. Making it nuevo: Latina/o modernist poetics remake high Euro-American modernism; 17. The archive and Afro-Latina/o field-formation: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American literatures; 18. Floricanto en Aztlan: Chicano cultural nationalism and its epic discontents; 19. 'The geography of their complexion': Nuyorican poetry and its legacies; 20. Cuban American counterpoint: the heterogeneity of Cuban American literature, culture, and politics; 21. Latina/o theater and performance in the contexts of social movements; Part IV. Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980-2017: 22. Undocumented immigration in Latina/o literature; 23. Latina feminist theory and writing; 24. Invisible no more: US central American literature before and beyond the age of neoliberalism; 25. Latina/o life narratives: crafting self-referential forms in the colonial milieu of the Americas; 26. Poetics of the 'majority minority'; 27. The Quisqueya diaspora: the emergence of Latina/o literature from Hispaniola; 28. Listening to literature: popular music, voice, and dance in the Latina/o literary imagination, 1980-2010; 29. Brazuca literature: old and new currents, countercurrents, and undercurrents; 30. Staging Latinidad and interrogating neoliberalism in contemporary Latina/o performance and border art; 31. Transamerican popular forms of Latina/o literature: genre fiction, graphic novels, and digital environments; 32. trauma, translation, and migration in the crossfire of the Americas: the intersection of Latina/o and South American literatures; 33. The Mesoamerican corridor, central American transits, and Latina/o becomings; 34. Differential visions: the diasporic stranger, subalternity, and the transing of experience in US Puerto Rican literature; 35. Temporal borderlands: toward decolonial queer temporality in Latina/o literature; Epilogue: Latina/o literature: the borders are burning; Chronology; Bibliography; Index.

Introduction / John Morán González and Laura Lomas

Part I. Rereading the Colonial Archive: Transculturation and Conflict, 1492-1808. Indigenous Herencias: Creoles, Mestizaje, and nations before nationalism / Arturo Arias ; Performing to a captive audience: dramatic encounters in the borderlands of empire / Pedro García-Caro ; The tricks of the weak: Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz and the feminist temporality of Latina literature / Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela ; Rethinking the colonial Latinx literary imaginary: a comparative and decolonial research agenda / Yoland Martínez San Miguel ; The historical and imagined cultural geographies of Latinidad / José Antoonio Mazzotti

Part II. The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature: The Literary Emergence of a Trans-American Imaginary, 1783-1912. Whither Latinidad?: the trajectories of Latin American, Caribbean, and Latina/o literature / María Del Pilar Blanco ; Father Félix Varela and the emergence of an organized Latina/o minority in early nineteenth-century New York City / Carmen E. Lamas ; Transamerican New Orleans: Latino literature of the Gulf, from the Spanish colonial period to post-Katrina / Kirsten Silva Gruesz ; Trajectories of exchange: toward histories of Latina/o literature / Rodrigo Lazo ; Narratives of displacement in places that once were Mexican / Jesse Alemán ; Under the skin of Latina feminism and Racism: travel narratives, novels of reform and racial rhetoric / Milagros López-Peláez Casellas ; José Martí, comparative critique, and the emergence of Latina/o modernity in gilded-age New York / Laura Lomas ; Afro-Latinidad: phoenix rising from a hemisphere's racist flames / Silvio Torres-Saillant

Part III. Negotiating Literary Modernity: Between Colonial Subjectivity and National Citizenship, 1910-1979. Oratory, memoir, and theater: performances of race and class in the early Twentieth-Century Latina/o public sphere / Antonio López ; Literary revolutions in the borderlands: transnational dimensions of the Mexican Revolution and its diaspora in the United States / Yolanda Padilla ; Making it nuevo: Latina/o modernist poetics remake high Euro-American modernism / David A. Colón ; The archive and Afro-Latina/o field-formation: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg at the intersection of Puerto Rican and African American literatures / César A. Salgado ; Floricanto en Aztlán: Chicano cultural nationalism and its epic discontents / Rafael Pérez-Torres; "The geography of their complexion": Nuyorican poetry and its legacies / Urayoán Noel ; Cuban American counterpoint: the heterogeneity of Cuban American literature, culture, and politics / William Luis ; Latina/o theater and performance in the contexts of social movements / Ricardo L. Orítz

Part IV. Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980-2017. Undocumented immigration in Latina/o literature / Marta Caminero-Santangelo ; Latina feminist theory and writing / Vanessa Pérez-Rosario ; Invisible no more: US Central American literature before and beyond the age of neoliberalism / Ana Patricia Rodríguez ; Latina/o life narratives: crafting self-referential forms in the colonial milieu of the Americas / Crystal M. Kurzen ; Poetics of the "majority minority" / Norma Elia Cantú ; The Quisqueya diaspora: the emergence of Latina/o literature from Hispaniola / Sophie Maríñez ; Listening to literature: popular music, voice, and dance in the Latina/o literary imagination, 1980-2010 / Lorena Alvarado; Brazuca literature: old and new currents, countercurrents, and undercurrents / Luz Angélica Kirschner ; Staging Latinidad and interrogating neoliberalism in contemporary Latina/o performance and border art / Laura G. Gutiérrez ; Trans-American popular forms of Latina/o literature: genre fiction, graphic novels, and digital environments / William Orchard ; Trauma, translation, and migration in the crossfire of the Americas: the intersection of Latina/o and South American literatures / Juanita Heredia ; The Mesoamerican corridor, Central American transits, and Latina/o becomings / Claudia Milian ; Differential visions: the diasporic stranger, subalternity, and the transing of experience in U.S. Puerto Rican literature / Richard Perez ; Temporal borderlands: toward decolonial queer temporality in Latina/o literature / Eliana Ávila ; Epilogue. Latina/o literature: the borders are burning / María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo.