The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Life Writing (Routledge Literature Handbooks)

Cover
Half Title
Series Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
Table of Contents
List of Figures
Notes on Contributors
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I: Historical Approaches and Memory in Latinx Life Writing
	1 “A Race Equal To, If Not Better Than, Theirs”: 19th-Century Californio Testimonios
	2 With a Pencil in Their Hand: The Corrido as Life Writing
	3 “I Will Never Deny What I am”: Masculinity in Oral Life Stories with Latine Vietnam Veterans
	4 Fictional and Nonfictional Memory: Exploring the Liminal Spaces of History and Memory in Latinx Life Writing
	5 Genealogies in 21st-Century Latina Life Writing: Memory, History, and Storytelling
Part II: Migration, Exile and Borders in Latinx Life Writing
	6 Cartographies of Hispanic and Latinx Travel Writing: Discourses of Origins, Nations, and Exploration
	7 Women’s Auto/biography in the Mexico-United States Borderscape, 1942–1968: Elisa M. del Valle, Celia Treviño Carranza, and Consuelo Peña de Villarreal Elizondo
	8 Latina/o/x Autobiographical Narratives of Exile: Examples from Cuba and Chile
	9 Latinx Life Writers of South American Origin or Heritage
	10 Coming Out as Undocumented Through Personal Narrative, 2006–2016
Part III: Chicana/Latina Feminisms and Life Writing
	11 How Latina Theater Found a Voice
	12 Chicana Feminist Life Writing: Cherríe Moraga, Gloria Anzaldúa, and Necessary Transgressions of Genre
	13 Undisciplining Academia through Feminista Testimonio Writing
	14 Chicanx and Latinx Feminist Testimonios
	15 ¿Y Yo También?: Sexual Assault Narratives in Chicana Memoirs
Part IV: Inscribing Race, Gender and Sexuality in Latinx Life Writing
	16 Writing from the Wound: Contemporary Latinx Writing as Racial Identity in Process
	17 The Afro-Latino Memoir
	18 Mapping Motherhood, Parenting, and Queer Care as Rebirth in Chicana/Latina Life Writing
	19 LGBTQ+ Latinx Poetry as Life Writing
	20 Disidentifications: New York City as Space for (Dis)Encounters in Latinx Queer Literature
	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
Part V: Latinx Life Writing: Signature Themes and Genres
	22 Vulnerability: Finding a Latinx Approach to Life Writing
	23 Automitografía: Empowerment and Cultural Resistance in Chicanx Life Writing
	24 Transformative Testimony and Lamentation: Latinx Protest Poetry as a New World of Witnessing
	25 Latinx Coming-of-Age Memoirs, 1961–2022
	26 Latinx Life Writing in Comics and Graphic Novels
Index