The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature

Louis G. Mendoza is Director of the School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies and Professor of Literature and Cultural Studies at Arizona State University. He is the author of A Journey Around Our America: A Memoir on Cycling, Immigration, and the Latinoization of the U.S. (2012), Conversations Across Our America: Talking About Immigration and the Latinoization of the U.S. (2012), and Historia: The Literary Making of Chicana and Chicano History (2001), as well as the editor of raúlrsalinas and the Jail Machine: My Weapon is My Pen (2006), and the co-editor of Crossing Into America: The New Literature of Immigration (2003) and Telling Tongues: A Latin@ Anthology on Language Experience (2007). He is also the director of a short film based on his research entitled, A Journey Across Our America: Observations and Reflections on the Latinoization of the U.S. (2010).

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The Latin American Origins of Latina/o Writing: Precolonial and Colonial period

Indigenous Manuscripts of Ancient and Early Colonial Mesoamerica: 14th-16th Centuries (Angelica Afanador-Pujol)
The History of Latin American Print Culture in the Colonial Period: 16th and 17th Centuries (Blanca López Morales de Mariscal)
The History of Latin American Print Culture: 18th and Early 19th Centuries (Censorship and Public Sphere Before and After Independence War) (Rosa Dalia Valdez Garza)
Print Culture and Censorship from Colonial Latin America to the US Latina/o Presence in the Nineteenth Century (Matthew J.K. Hill)
Alvarez de Toledo y Dubois, José (Nicolás Kanellos)
de Miranda, Francisco (Joselyn Almeida-Beveridge)


Writing in the Southwest

Late 19th Century Latina/o Letters: A Heterogeneous Archive (Anita Huizar-Hernández)
Late 19th-Century Periodical Print Culture in the US-Mexico Border Region (Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara)
The US-Mexico War and American Literary History (Jaime Javier Rodríguez)
Mexican American (Chicana/o) (Frederick Luis Aldama)
Californio Testimonios (Rosaura Sánchez)
New Mexico Newspapers (Vanessa Fonseca-Chávez)
Border and la frontera in the US-Mexico Borderlands (Alicia Arrizón)
Seguín, Juan Nepomuceno (Jesús F. de la Teja)
Ruiz de Burton, María Amparo (Beatrice Pita)
Chacón, Eusebio (Francisco A. Lomelli)
The Flores Magón Brothers and Magonismo on the Borderlands (Luis A. Marentes)
Paredes, Américo - Héctor Pérez
Gloria Anzaldúa: Always on the Other Side (Betsy Dahms)


Caribbean Latinades

Martí, José (Alfred J. López)
Asian Dimensions of Caribbean Latina/o Identity and Cultural Production (Kathleen López)
Circumventing Racialism through Mulataje (José F. Buscaglia-Salgado)
Nuyorican and Diasporican Literature and Culture (Jorge Duany)
Puerto Rican Nationhood, Ethnicity, and Literature (Frances R. Aparicio)
The Latino Fiction of Piri Thomas (Arnaldo M. Cruz-Malavé)
Cuban American Literatures (Ricardo L. Ortiz)
Grillo, Evelio (Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez)
Dominican Ethnic Identities, National Borders, and Literature (Lorgia García Peña)
Currents in Dominican American Literature (Nancy Kang and Silvio Torres-Saillant)
Tígueres and Tígueras in Dominican National and Diasporic Culture (Jacob C. Brown)
Vindicating Dominican latinidad through Pedro Henríquez Ureña's First New York Stay (Sharina Maillo-Pozo)
Junot Díaz's Diasporic Discontents: Race, Sex, Belonging, and the Promise of Decolonial Love (Yomaira Figueroa)
Indiana Hernández, Rita (Selma Feliciano Arroyo)

Central American American

Central American-American Feminisms (Yajaira M. Padilla)
Central American-American Identity and Politics (Maritza E. Cárdenas)
Decoloniality and Identity in Central American Latina and Latino Literature (Arturo Arias)
Maya Youth Literatures in the Diaspora (Floridalma Boj Lopez)
Radio and the (Re) Construction of Maya Identity in the Diaspora (Alicia Ivonne Estrada)
War and Its Impact on Central American-American Literature (Tatiana Argüello)
The Indigenous Presence and Central American-American Writers in the United States (Arturo Arias)
US Central Americans in Art and Visual Culture (Kency Cornejo)
The Presence of Coloniality in Central American-American Fictions (Oriel María Siu)

Latinx: The Queering/Non-binariness of Latina/o

Racialized sexuality (Jillian Hernandez)
Queerness in Latina/o/x Literature (Liliana C. González)
Muñoz, José Esteban (Iván A. Ramos)
Heteronormativity and Homonormativity in Queer Chicana/o Cultural Discourse and Politics (René Esparza)
Hispanic Caribbean Sexiles (Consuelo Martinez-Reyes)
Transgender Studies (Frank Galarte)
The Discursive and Material Construction of Latina Sexuality (Bernadine Marie Hernández)
Latina and Chicana Butch/Femme in Literature and Culture (Stacy I. Macías)
Latina Lesbian Literature (Rita E. Urquijo-Ruiz)
Butchlalis de Panochtitlan, Wanda Alarcón
Latino Gay Literature (Daniel Contreras)
Homeboy Masculinity (José Navarro)
Masculinity and Machismo in US Latinx Literature (Ricardo L. Ortiz)
Rechy, John (Ricardo L. Ortiz)
Lourdes Casal's Interdisciplinary Writing (Laura Lomas)
Rodriguez, Richard (Juan Velasco)
Alfaro, Luis (Paul Allatson)
Decolonial Imaginings: The Work of Emma Pérez (Ellie D. Hernández)
Cuadros, Gil (Rafael Pérez-Torres)

Text and Context: Diverse Perspectives

Oral Culture: Literacy, Religion, Performance (Cara Anne Kinnally)
Afro Latina/os, (Carlos Ulises Decena)
Interlingual Literature, Tropicalization, and Bilanguaging (Shawn Gonzalez)
Spanish Language in Chicana/o Literature (Jesús Rosales)
US Latina/os and the White Imagination (Lee Bebout)
Contemporary Latina/o Literature in the Midwest (Theresa Delgadillo, Leila Vieira)
Cisneros, Sandra (Olga L. Herrera)
From Nationalist Movements to Transnational Solidarities: Comparative and Pan-Latina/o Literary Studies (Marta Caminero-Santangelo)
Latin American-American Literature (Rose Phillips)
Latina/os in Media: Representation, Production, and Consumption (Manuel G. Avilés-Santiago)
Labor Movements and Chicana/o Literature (Marcial González)
Latina Feminist Literature (Alicia Arrizón)
Transnational Capitalism in Latina/o Literature (Rosaura Sánchez, Beatrice Pita)
Literary Representations of Migration (Marisel Moreno)
The Pasts and Futures of Latina/o Indigeneities (Simón Ventura Trujillo)
Banning of Ethnic Studies in the US, Norma Cantú

Latina/o Writing in the Future: Emergent Genres

Latina/o Environmental Justice Literature (Kamala Platt)
Latina/o Literature and War: Gendered Combat Zones (Ariana E. Vigil)
Warfare and Latina/o Social Movements (Belinda Linn Rincón)
Latinofuturism (Cathryn Merla-Watson)
Latinx Communities, the Criminal Justice System, and Literature, Jose Morin
Chicana/o Gang Narratives (José Navarro)
Latina/o Popular Culture and Conflict: Comics, Graphic Novels, and Film (Frederick Luis Aldama)
Jimmy Santiago Baco and Latina/o Prisoner Literature: A Quest for Language, Land, and Reconciliation (Clint J. Terrell)
Morrissey as Latina/o Literary and Cultural Icon (Melissa M. Hidalgo)
Raúl Salinas and the Poetics of Social Justice and Liberation (Louis G. Mendoza)
The Literary and Activist Works of Luis J. Rodríguez (Josephine Metcalf)
Daniel Cano in Life and Text (Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue)