Mónica Szurmuk is Senior Researcher at the National Scientific and Technical Research Council of Argentina, and a Professor at the Universidad Nacional de San Martín. She has published extensively on Latin American and Jewish Literature, gender, cultural studies, and memory. Her most recent books include The Cambridge History of Latin American Women's Literature (with Ileana Rodríguez) and La vocación desmesurada: Una biografía de Alberto Gerchunoff. Debra A. Castillo is Emerson Hinchliff Professor of Hispanic Studies and Professor of Comparative Literature at Cornell University. She specializes in contemporary narrative and performance from the Spanish-speaking world (including the United States), gender studies, comparative border studies, and cultural theory. Her most recent books include South of the Future: Speculative Biotechnologies and Care Markets in South Asia and Latin America (with Anindita Banerjee) and The Scholar as Human (with Anna Sims Bartel).

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• Introduction; Part I. Security: 1. Geological writings Cristina Rivera-Garza; 2. Literature, trauma, and human rights Ana Forcinito; 3. Literatura de Hijos in post-dictatorship South America Jordana Blejmar; 4. Mexican narconarratives after 'Narcos' Oswaldo Zavala; Part II. New Genres: 5. Speculative fiction Liliana Colanzi; 6. Latin American digital literatura Silvana Mandolessi; 7. Children's literature in Latin America from school to marketplace and beyond Alejandra Josiowicz; 8. Paraliterature Janet Hendrickson; 9. Performance studies Analola Santana; 10. Graphing a hemispheric history of latinx comics creation Frederick Luis Aldama; 11. New poetry, fresh approaches Jill Kuhnheim; Part III. Mobilities: 12. New Latinx/Chicanx thought Ariana E. Vigil; 13. The boundless dramas of dancing Mulatas Honey Crawford; 14. Contemporary stories of deportation and migration Robert McKee Irwin; 15. The Language Shift of Literary Studies on Abiayala Juan G. Sánchez Martínez; 16. South Asia and Latin America/comparative booms Roanne Kantor; Part IV. Positionalities: 17. Linguistic and literary tensions in contemporary Paraguay Carla Daniela Benisz and Rodrigo N. Villalba Rojas; 18. The remaking of the “New Man” in queer Cuban cinema Dara E. Goldman; 19. Dissident sexualities in Southern-Cone literature Laura Arnés and Nora Domínguez; 20. Queer feminism in Latin American hip hop Melissa Castillo Planas; 21. Figures of the impersonal in contemporary Latin American Culture Florencia Garramuño; Part V. LA literature in Global Markets: 22. Latin American literature and criticism in the global market Graciela Montaldo; 23. Doing Brazilian Digital Cultural studies Tori Holmes; 24. Mexican transnational cinema in the 21st century Maricruz Castro Ricalde.