The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing

Author:   Maria Joaquina Villaseñor ,  Christine J. Fernández
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
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Pages:   406
Publication Date:   23 May 2024
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Author:   Maria Joaquina Villaseñor ,  Christine J. Fernández
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.940kg
ISBN:  

9781032225746


ISBN 10:   1032225742
Pages:   406
Publication Date:   23 May 2024
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Forthcoming
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Introduction Maria Joaquina Villaseñor PART 1: Historical Approaches and Memory in Latinx Life Writing 1 “A Race Equal To, If Not Better Than, Theirs”: 19th‑CenturyCalifornio Testimonios Rose Marie Beebe and Robert M. Senkewicz 2 With a Pencil in Their Hand: The Corrido as Life Writing Ric Alviso 3 “I Will Never Deny What I am”: Masculinity in Oral Life Stories with Latine Vietnam Veterans Tomás F. Summers Sandoval Jr. 4 Fictional and Nonfictional Memory: Exploring the Liminal Spaces of History and Memory in Latinx Life Writing Daniel Luis Archer 5 Genealogies in 21st‑Century Latina Life Writing: Memory, History, and Storytelling Jennifer Geraci PART II: Migration, Exile and Borders in Latinx Life Writing 6 Cartographies of Hispanic and Latinx Travel Writing: Discourses of Origins, Nations, and Exploration Christine J. Fernández 7 Women’s Auto/biography in the Mexico‑United States Borderscape, 1942–968: Elisa M. del Valle, Celia Trevino Carranza, and Consuelo Pena de Villarreal Elizondo Paulo Alvarado 8 Latina/o/x Autobiographical Narratives of Exile: Examples from Cuba and Chile Lucía M. Suárez 9 Latinx Life Writers of South American Origin or Heritage Cynthia Martínez 10 Coming Out as Undocumented Through Personal Narrative, 2006–2016 Leah Butterfield PART III: Chicana/Latina Feminisms and Life Writing 11 How Latina Theater Found a Voice Leigh Johnson 12 Chicana Feminist Life Writing: Cherrie Moraga, Gloria Anzaldua, and Necessary Transgressions of Genre R. Joyce Z. L. Garay 13 Undisciplining Academia through Feminista Testimonio Writing Rebeca Burciaga, Dolores Delgado Bernal, C. Alejandra Elenes, and Judith Flores Carmona 14 Chicanx and Latinx Feminist Testimonios Ana Roncero‑Bellido 15 ¿Y Yo Tambien?: Sexual Assault Narratives in Chicana Memoirs Melissa Castillo Planas PART IV: Inscribing Race, Gender and Sexuality in Latinx Life Writing 16 Writing from the Wound: Contemporary Latinx Writing as Racial Identity in Process Dominique Aurilla Vargas 17 The Afro‑Latino Memoir Trent Masiki 18 Mapping Motherhood, Parenting, and Queer Care as Rebirth in Chicana/Latina Life Writing Marivel T. Danielson 19 LGBTQ+ Latinx Poetry as Life Writing Edward A. Chamberlain 20 Disidentifications: New York City as Space for (Dis)Encounters in Latinx Queer Literature José Acosta‑Seda 21 From Grindr Advice Column to Memoir: Latinx Life Writing Online and the Queer Latinx Care Work of John Paul Brammer’s “!Hola Papi!” Series Jennifer M. Lozano and Katie R. Peel PART V: Latinx Life Writing: Signature Themes and Genres 22 Vulnerability: Finding a Latinx Approach to Life Writing Ruth Behar 23 Automitografia: Empowerment and Cultural Resistance in Chicanx Life Writing Juan Velasco 24 Transformative Testimony and Lamentation: Latinx Protest Poetry as a New World of Witnessing Francisco E. Robles 25 Latinx Coming‑of‑Age Memoirs, 1961–2022 Regina Marie Mills 26 Latinx Life Writing in Comics and Graphic Novels Samantha Ceballos

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Maria Joaquina Villaseñor (Ph.D., University of California, Berkeley) is Associate Dean of Liberal Arts at Sierra College. Previously she was a Professor of Chicanx/Latinx Studies in the Department of Humanities and Communication and co-founder of the Ethnic Studies Working Group at California State University, Monterey Bay. Villaseñor is the co-editor of Latinx Experiences: Interdisciplinary Perspectives (2023), a co-author of The Historical Dictionary of U.S. Latino Literature (2017); a Latina life writer herself, her personal essays have been published in journals including The Acentos Review. Dr. Villaseñor’s family is from Ciudad del Carmen, Campeche, Mexico. She is a twin, a mother of twins, and a lifelong Californian. Christine J. Fernández is Associate Professor of Latin American Literature and Culture at California State University, Monterey Bay. Her scholarship focuses on Hemispheric connections between Latin America and the United States and its intersections with gender studies and life writing. Her work has been published in journals such as eHumanista, Studies on Latin American Popular Culture, and Hispania.

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