Latinx Literature in Transition, 1444-1886: Volume 1

Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez is Professor of Hispanic studies at Carnegie Mellon University. She holds a PhD in Hispanic Literatures and Linguistics from the University of California, Berkeley. She received an NEH grant for a performance ethnography of an unknown chapter of immigrant Cuban theater, is a co-editor of Herencia: The Anthology of Hispanic Literature of the United States (2001), En Otra Voz: Antología de la Literatura Hispana de los Estados Unidos (2002), has published widely in Cuban, Latinx, and Sephardic studies, and is also a translator. Elisa Sampson Vera Tudela is a reader in Latin American culture at King's College London. Her research focuses on the complex historicising and locating of Latin American cultural production. Her publications have ranged over seventeenth-century women's writing (Colonial Angels, 2000), the nineteenth century, (Ricardo Palma's Tradiciones: Illuminating Gender and Nation, 2012), and contemporary Latin American/x literature. She also plays a leading role in curriculum reform in the UK around Modern Language education.

• Part I. Transacting: Archives and the (Un)ma(r)king of Difference: 1. Archiving Indians/Indios and fabricating Whites: colonial Spanish-American 'antiquities' and late eighteenth-century elites in Philadelphia Ruth Hill; 2. Forever present and silent no more: early Sephardic voices in the Spanish North American Atlantic Emily Colbert-Cairns; 3. Talismanic fragments of the Muslim Atlantic: the Malê revolt of 1835 Zeinab Mcheimech; 4. The mid nineteenth-century press and periodical poetry: Francisco P. Ramírez's Borderlands Anthology Ayendy Bonifacio; Part II. Transcending: Narrative and Counternarratives: 5. La Llorona's ghosts: losses and omens in colonial and contemporary texts Matthew Goldmark; 6. From Mary Rowlandson to Lola Medina: rethinking the captivity narrative genre Nicole Eitzen Delgado; 7. Early Latinx formation in Inca Garcilaso: Spanish encounters with the Lady of Cofachiqui Thomas Ward; 8. 'Tragic time': an unromantic re-reading of nineteenth-century Cuban history Dalia Antonia Caraballo Muller; Part III. Transgressing: Beyond Empire, Nation, or Race: 9. When words are not enough: José Martí, race, and writing/righting the imagined nation Kenya C. Dworkin y Méndez; 10. The First Filipino and the Archive: Introducing Rizal in colonial Latinx studies Ernest Rafael Hartwell; 11. Anarchist Media, Cuba's War for Independence, and the Forging of a Radical Transnational Latinidad, 1880s–1890s Kirwin Shaffer; 12. Creole patriotism and the colonial archive: Francisco de Florencia and the early Florida frontier Jason Dyck; Part IV. Transcreating: Texts, Subtexts and Creative Anachronism: 13. Spanish Baroque theater and the transatlantic: Bartolomé de Alva's Nahuatl transcreation of El animal profeta y dichoso patricida José Estrada; 14. The epistemic disobedience of Latinx Shakespeares Carla Della Gatta; 15. The strange case of a 'lost' dramatic performance: early Californio literary culture and Anglo-American historiographic censoring Pedro García-Caro; 16. Mars is Oggún: African-Cuban spirituality and the divine masculine in the poetry of Plácido Matthew Pettway; 17. Drawing the Latinx migrant subject: From Guaman Poma via Cornejo Polar to Martín López Lam's Las edades de la rata (2019) Andrea Aramburú