Table of Contents
New Waves in U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism - L.Di Iorio Sandín & R.Perez PART I: ARCHIVES, HISTORY, AND GENEALOGIES The Once and Future Latino: Notes Toward a Literary History todavía para llegar - K. Silva Gruesz Latino U.S. Literature: A Bridge Between Two Centuries, Two Regions, and Two Cultures in Cristina García's The Agüero Sisters - W.Luis Out of the Margins: The 'Lost Generation' Writes Back - A.O'Reilly Herrera PART II: PRODUCTIONS OF SPACE, LABOR, AND THE LITERARY Oscar Hijuelos: Writer of Work - R.Lazo Mass Production of the Heartland: Cuban American Lesbian Camp in Achy Obejas's "Wrecks" - M.DeGuzman PART III: AFRO-LATINO/A POETICS Spirited Identities: Creole Religions, Ceole/U.S. Latina Literature, and the Initiated Reader - M.Fernández Olmos Reading the Disfigured Face: Exteriorizing Blackness and Re/inscribing Latino Masculinity in Piri Thomas' Down These Mean Streets and Junot Díaz's Drown - R.Perez Revisions of Ekphrasis and the Souvenir Collectible in Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints - V.Chevalier-Brooks PART IV: LATINO/A AFFECT As yet untitled essay - R.de la Campa Hystory and Literary Representation of the Puerto Rican Syndrome - L.Di Iorio Sandín St. Miguelito: The Oulaw Poetic of Miguel Piñero - F.Negrón Muntaner