Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture: An Introduction
Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture: An Introduction examines the early foundations, current trends, and future directions of the field of Latinx youth literature, media, and culture. This textbook introduces readers, students, and scholars to the field’s shifting dynamics, beginning with some of the earliest published texts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to more contemporary materials today. Each chapter includes a list of suggested further readings to enrich students’ and scholars’ understandings and provides possible avenues for independent reading and research. Including a glossary and research and teaching snapshots, this book highlights core concepts such as immigration and diaspora, transnationality, gender, sexuality, and activism, and provides avenues for further research and reading.

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Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture: An Introduction
Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture: An Introduction examines the early foundations, current trends, and future directions of the field of Latinx youth literature, media, and culture. This textbook introduces readers, students, and scholars to the field’s shifting dynamics, beginning with some of the earliest published texts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to more contemporary materials today. Each chapter includes a list of suggested further readings to enrich students’ and scholars’ understandings and provides possible avenues for independent reading and research. Including a glossary and research and teaching snapshots, this book highlights core concepts such as immigration and diaspora, transnationality, gender, sexuality, and activism, and provides avenues for further research and reading.

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Latinx Children's and Young Adult Literature and Culture: An Introduction examines the early foundations, current trends, and future directions of the field of Latinx youth literature, media, and culture. This textbook introduces readers, students, and scholars to the field’s shifting dynamics, beginning with some of the earliest published texts in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries to more contemporary materials today. Each chapter includes a list of suggested further readings to enrich students’ and scholars’ understandings and provides possible avenues for independent reading and research. Including a glossary and research and teaching snapshots, this book highlights core concepts such as immigration and diaspora, transnationality, gender, sexuality, and activism, and provides avenues for further research and reading.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781032945095
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Publication date: 03/20/2026
Series: Routledge Introductions to Young Adult and Children's Literature
Pages: 184
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x (d)

About the Author

Cristina Rhodes is an Associate Professor of English at Shippensburg University.

Cristina Herrera is Professor and Director of Chicanx/Latinx Studies at Portland State University.

Table of Contents

Introduction

 

Chapter One:  History and Identity: A Genealogy of Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature

 

Chapter Two: Explorations in Genre and Form: Innovation and Experimentation by Latinx Authors and Illustrators 

 

Chapter Three: Crossing Borders: Constructions of Citizenship, Belonging, and (Im)Migration

 

Chapter Four: Queerness, Love, and Intersectionality in Latinx Youth Narratives

 

Chapter Five: International Approaches to Latin American Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Culture

 

Chapter Six: Beyond the Book: Latinx Youth in Media and Popular Culture

 

Chapter Seven: The Future of Latinx Youth Literature

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