Contemporary U.S. Latino/ A Literary Criticism

1. Introduction New Waves in U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism
Lyn Iorio Sandín, Richard Perez

Part I. Desire for the Other

2. The Latino Scapegoat: Knowledge through Death in Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates and Junot Díaz
Lyn Iorio Sandín

3. Alternative Visions and the Souvenir Collectible in Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints
Victoria A. Chevalier

Part II. Afro-Latino/a Poetics

4. Spirited Identities: Creole Religions, Creole/U.S. Latina Literature, and the Initiated Reader
Margarite Fernández Olmos

5. Racial Spills and Disfigured Faces in Piri Thomas’s Down These Mean Streets and Junot Díaz’s “Ysrael”
Richard Perez

Part III. Archives, Histories, and Genealogies

6. The Once and Future Latino: Notes Toward a Literary History todavía para llegar
Kirsten Silva Gruesz

7. Hurricanes, Magic, Science, and Politics in Cristina García’s The Agüero Sisters
William Luis

8. Latin Americans and Latinos: Terms of Engagement
Román Campa

9. “Inheriting” Exile: Cuban-American Writers in the Diaspora
Andrea O’Reilly Herrera

Part IV. Ideology and Labor

10. “So Your Social is Real?” Vernacular Theorists and Economic Transformation
Mary Pat Brady

11. Oscar Hijuelos: Writer of Work
Rodrigo Lazo

12. Mass Production of the Heartland: Cuban American Lesbian Camp in Achy Obejas’s “Wrecks”
Maria DeGuzmán

Keywords: Literature, North American Literature, Poetry and Poetics, Twentieth-Century Literature