In this dynamic collection of essays, literary scholars trace gay and lesbian themes in Latin American, Hispanic, and US Latino literary and cultural texts, ranging historically, from the 17th through
This is a rarity in contemporary writing, a truly bilingual enterprise, as in Susana Ch?vez-Silverman’s previous memoir, Killer Cr￠nicas. Ch?vez-Silverman switches between English and Spanish,
A woman living and communicating in multiple lands, Susana Ch?vez-Silverman conveys her cultural and linguistic displacement in humorous, bittersweet, and even tangible ways in this truly bilingual l
Tropicalization, as the editors define it, "means to trope, to imbue a particular space, geography, group, or nation with a set of traits, images, and values" that are circulated and perpetuated throu
