Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States

Juanita Heredia is Professor of Spanish at Northern Arizona University, USA. She is the author of Transnational Latina Narratives in the Twenty-first Century: The Politics of Gender, Race and Migrations (2009) and co-editor of Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers (2000). While she was a post-doctoral Fellow at UCLA she advanced work on her critical monograph, Transnational Latinas/os and the City: Negotiating Urban Experiences in Twenty-first Century Literature and Culture.

“Mapping South American Latina/a Literature in the United States: Interviews with Contemporary Writers by Juanita Heredia is a welcome critical Intervention … . The volume is overall a much-needed contribution to the growing field of Latina/o literature in the United States. … Mapping will be valuable to scholars of Latina/o and Latin American contemporary literature, queer and gender studies, and multi-ethnic U.S. literature; and a companion to students reading works by these twelve authors in undergraduate or graduate courses.” (Manuela Borzone, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature STTCL, Vol. 46 (1), 2022)“This text may serve as a useful resource for educatorswishing to provide students with a contemporary context to the works studied in their courses, and would also be an enjoyable read for the general intellectual.” (Carolyn González, Latino Studies, Vol. 19, 2021)

• 1. Introduction: Mapping South American Latinidad in the United States.- 2. The Task of the Translator: Daniel Alarcón.- 3. Bridges across Lima and Washington D.C.: Marie Arana.- 4. Dreaming in Brazilian: Kathleen De Azevedo.- 5. It Takes Two to Tango across Montevideo and California: Carolina De Robertis.- 6. Traveling the Caribbean, Colombia, and the U.S.: Patricia Engel.- 7. My Poetic Feminism between Peru and the U.S.: Carmen Giménez Smith.- 8. Gender and Spirituality in Colombia, Cuba and New Jersey: Daisy Hernández.- 9. The Colombiano of Greenwich Village: Jaime Manrique.- 10. A Meditation on Parenting from Syria to Peru to the U.S: Farid Matuk.- 11. From Dirty Wars in Argentina and Latvia to Listening to Music: Julie Sophia Paegle.- 12. Writing the Chilena NuYorker Experience: Mariana Romo-Carmona.- 13. Returning to the Fervor of Buenos Aires from the U.S.: Sergio Waisman.