Amrita Das is Associate Professor of Spanish at University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA, where she teaches a variety of courses on Latinx literature, culture, and the Spanish language. She received her M.A. from the University of Delhi and her Ph.D. from Florida State University.Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez is Professor at Georgian Court University, USA, where she teaches a variety of courses on Latin American and Latinx literature, culture, and the Spanish language. She received her M.A. from Middlebury College through their graduate program in Madrid, Spain. She earned her Ph.D in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.Michele Shaul is the Director of the Center for Latino Studies and Professor of Spanish at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, NC, USA. She is co-founder and co-editor of the e-journal Label Me Latina/o and is involved in several arts projects such as ARTE LATINO NOW. She received her M.A. from the University of Florida and her Ph.D from UNC-Chapel Hill.

“The editors and authors of this volume succeed in mapping the contours of an evolving and increasingly variable field. … Overall, the volume clearly articulates the problems of English-only approaches to Latinx texts and clears space for future projects centred on the vital and strategic role of Spanish in Latinx literature.” (Marlene Hansen Esplin, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 97 (3), 2020)

• 1. U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish: Claiming its Rightful Place; Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez  Michele Shaul.- 2. Rethinking the Lens of Spanish: Grounding a Chicana Feminist Language; Elena Avilés.- 3. Self-Representation and the Dual Reality of Identity in the Spanish-language Poetry of Javier O. Huerta; Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara.- 4. Two Narratives of Memories Between Borders: Flourishing of a Transnational Identity; Cynthia Meléndrez.- 5. Untangling Literary Knots: Writing, Memory, and Identity in Sonia Rivera-Valdés’ Rosas de Abolengo (2011); María Celina Bortolotto.- 6. When Whiteness Means Imagining Blackness and Signifying Socio-Cultural Difference; JM. Persánch.- 7. The Rise of Latino Americanism: Deterritorialization and Postnational Imagination in Joseph Avski, Yuri Herrera, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, and Luis Marcelino Gómez; Francisco Laguna-Correa.- 8. Conclusion: Continuing the Dialogue; Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez  Michele Shaul.

Amrita Das is Associate Professor of Spanish at University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA, where she teaches a variety of courses on Latinx literature, culture, and the Spanish language. She received her M.A. from the University of Delhi and her Ph.D. from Florida State University.Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez is Professor at Georgian Court University, USA, where she teaches a variety of courses on Latin American and Latinx literature, culture, and the Spanish language. She received her M.A. from Middlebury College through their graduate program in Madrid, Spain. She earned her Ph.D in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.Michele Shaul is the Director of the Center for Latino Studies and Professor of Spanish at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, NC, USA. She is co-founder and co-editor of the e-journal Label Me Latina/o and is involved in several arts projects such as ARTE LATINO NOW. She received her M.A. from the University of Florida and her Ph.D from UNC-Chapel Hill.

“The editors and authors of this volume succeed in mapping the contours of an evolving and increasingly variable field. … Overall, the volume clearly articulates the problems of English-only approaches to Latinx texts and clears space for future projects centred on the vital and strategic role of Spanish in Latinx literature.” (Marlene Hansen Esplin, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 97 (3), 2020)

• 1. U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish: Claiming its Rightful Place; Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez  Michele Shaul.- 2. Rethinking the Lens of Spanish: Grounding a Chicana Feminist Language; Elena Avilés.- 3. Self-Representation and the Dual Reality of Identity in the Spanish-language Poetry of Javier O. Huerta; Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara.- 4. Two Narratives of Memories Between Borders: Flourishing of a Transnational Identity; Cynthia Meléndrez.- 5. Untangling Literary Knots: Writing, Memory, and Identity in Sonia Rivera-Valdés’ Rosas de Abolengo (2011); María Celina Bortolotto.- 6. When Whiteness Means Imagining Blackness and Signifying Socio-Cultural Difference; JM. Persánch.- 7. The Rise of Latino Americanism: Deterritorialization and Postnational Imagination in Joseph Avski, Yuri Herrera, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, and Luis Marcelino Gómez; Francisco Laguna-Correa.- 8. Conclusion: Continuing the Dialogue; Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez  Michele Shaul.

Amrita Das is Associate Professor of Spanish at University of North Carolina Wilmington, USA, where she teaches a variety of courses on Latinx literature, culture, and the Spanish language. She received her M.A. from the University of Delhi and her Ph.D. from Florida State University.Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez is Professor at Georgian Court University, USA, where she teaches a variety of courses on Latin American and Latinx literature, culture, and the Spanish language. She received her M.A. from Middlebury College through their graduate program in Madrid, Spain. She earned her Ph.D in Romance Languages and Literatures from the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill.Michele Shaul is the Director of the Center for Latino Studies and Professor of Spanish at Queens University of Charlotte in Charlotte, NC, USA. She is co-founder and co-editor of the e-journal Label Me Latina/o and is involved in several arts projects such as ARTE LATINO NOW. She received her M.A. from the University of Florida and her Ph.D from UNC-Chapel Hill.

“The editors and authors of this volume succeed in mapping the contours of an evolving and increasingly variable field. … Overall, the volume clearly articulates the problems of English-only approaches to Latinx texts and clears space for future projects centred on the vital and strategic role of Spanish in Latinx literature.” (Marlene Hansen Esplin, Bulletin of Spanish Studies, Vol. 97 (3), 2020)

• 1. U.S. Latinx Literature in Spanish: Claiming its Rightful Place; Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez  Michele Shaul.- 2. Rethinking the Lens of Spanish: Grounding a Chicana Feminist Language; Elena Avilés.- 3. Self-Representation and the Dual Reality of Identity in the Spanish-language Poetry of Javier O. Huerta; Donna M. Kabalen de Bichara.- 4. Two Narratives of Memories Between Borders: Flourishing of a Transnational Identity; Cynthia Meléndrez.- 5. Untangling Literary Knots: Writing, Memory, and Identity in Sonia Rivera-Valdés’ Rosas de Abolengo (2011); María Celina Bortolotto.- 6. When Whiteness Means Imagining Blackness and Signifying Socio-Cultural Difference; JM. Persánch.- 7. The Rise of Latino Americanism: Deterritorialization and Postnational Imagination in Joseph Avski, Yuri Herrera, Claudia Salazar Jiménez, and Luis Marcelino Gómez; Francisco Laguna-Correa.- 8. Conclusion: Continuing the Dialogue; Amrita Das, Kathryn Quinn-Sánchez  Michele Shaul.