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Book Synopsis
Presents a collection of stories, poetry, art, and essays divining the contemporary intersection of Latinx and Indigenous cultures from the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America.

Trade Review
This truly innovative book amasses creative and research-based writing that illustrates a connection between historical indigenous communities and contemporary Chicanx identified peoples." - Rachel González-Martin, author of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities

Table of Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction: Collecting Our Bones
    Shantel Martinez and Kelly Medina-López

    Part I. Ghosts in the Real: Historiography in Our Stories that Becomes Research
  • Chapter 1. La Llorona: A LatIndingenous Specter of Trauma, Motherhood, and Contemporary Racial Violence
    Sarah De Los Santos Upton and Leandra Hinojosa Hernández
  • Chapter 2. Legacies of Land, Cultural Clashes, and Spiritual Stirrings: A Testimonio of New Mexican Ghost Stories
    Amanda R. Martinez
  • Chapter 3. Dueling Border-Ghosts: Exploring the Equator as a Space of Spirituality and Resistance
    Diana Isabel Martínez
  • Chapter 4. Closing the Circle
    Eric Murillo
  • Chapter 5. Ciguanabas, Refugees, and Other Hauntings: Three Salvadoran Women’s Epistemic Hauntings as Resistance against Heteropatriarchy
    Brenda Selena Lara
  • Chapter 6. "Entre la Santa y la Muerte": Liminality and Empowerment in Mexico’s Santa Muerte
    Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza
  • Chapter 7. La CoyotaPerejundia
    Moises Gonzales
  • Chapter 8. Iconografía Prohibida/Forbidden Iconography
    Lizzeth Tecuatl Cuaxiloa
  • Chapter 9. Making a Living
    Saul Ramirez

    Part II. Hazme Caso: Memoir, Poetry, and Stories
  • Chapter 10. Curse of the Zamora Girls: Unveiling Familial Ghost Stories for Survival
    Bianca Tonantzin Zamora
  • Chapter 11. And He Whispered, "Yolanda, Yolanda"
    Spencer R. Herrera
  • Chapter 12. Mi Abuelita y Los Rosarios
    Arturo "Velaz" Muñoz
  • Chapter 13. Los Aullidos de las Madres
    Sarah Amira de la Garza
  • Chapter 14. my baby wanted an el camino, that’s real
    Diego Medina
  • Chapter 15. Cry Baby
    Kathleen Alcalá
  • Chapter 16. Becoming Indigenous Again: Returning Home and Making the Ghosts Visible
    Juan Pacheco Marcial
  • Chapter 17. cortando las nubes,or, death came on horses
    ire’ne lara silva
  • Chapter 18. Thru the Veil and 32.2480° N, 112.9161° W (Sonoran Desert)
    Roxanna Ivonne Sanchez-Avila

    Part III. Bringing the Borderlands Home: Public Discourses and Theories of the Flesh
  • Chapter 19. Hauntology of the Oppressed: The MeXicana Gothic and Spectral Geographies in Sandra Cisneros’s "Woman Hollering Creek"
    Cathryn J. Merla-Watson
  • Chapter 20. Haunted by Settler Nostalgia: (Lat)Indigenous Specters, White Vampires, and the Historical Amnesia of Twilight
    Susana Loza
  • About the Contributors
  • Index

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      Publisher: MP-MPP University Press of Mississippi
      Publication Date: 2/15/2024 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN13: 9781496848734, 978-1496848734
      ISBN10: 149684873X
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      Presents a collection of stories, poetry, art, and essays divining the contemporary intersection of Latinx and Indigenous cultures from the American Southwest, Mexico, and Central and South America.

      Trade Review
      This truly innovative book amasses creative and research-based writing that illustrates a connection between historical indigenous communities and contemporary Chicanx identified peoples." - Rachel González-Martin, author of Quinceañera Style: Social Belonging and Latinx Consumer Identities

      Table of Contents
      • Acknowledgments
      • Introduction: Collecting Our Bones
        Shantel Martinez and Kelly Medina-López

        Part I. Ghosts in the Real: Historiography in Our Stories that Becomes Research
      • Chapter 1. La Llorona: A LatIndingenous Specter of Trauma, Motherhood, and Contemporary Racial Violence
        Sarah De Los Santos Upton and Leandra Hinojosa Hernández
      • Chapter 2. Legacies of Land, Cultural Clashes, and Spiritual Stirrings: A Testimonio of New Mexican Ghost Stories
        Amanda R. Martinez
      • Chapter 3. Dueling Border-Ghosts: Exploring the Equator as a Space of Spirituality and Resistance
        Diana Isabel Martínez
      • Chapter 4. Closing the Circle
        Eric Murillo
      • Chapter 5. Ciguanabas, Refugees, and Other Hauntings: Three Salvadoran Women’s Epistemic Hauntings as Resistance against Heteropatriarchy
        Brenda Selena Lara
      • Chapter 6. "Entre la Santa y la Muerte": Liminality and Empowerment in Mexico’s Santa Muerte
        Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza
      • Chapter 7. La CoyotaPerejundia
        Moises Gonzales
      • Chapter 8. Iconografía Prohibida/Forbidden Iconography
        Lizzeth Tecuatl Cuaxiloa
      • Chapter 9. Making a Living
        Saul Ramirez

        Part II. Hazme Caso: Memoir, Poetry, and Stories
      • Chapter 10. Curse of the Zamora Girls: Unveiling Familial Ghost Stories for Survival
        Bianca Tonantzin Zamora
      • Chapter 11. And He Whispered, "Yolanda, Yolanda"
        Spencer R. Herrera
      • Chapter 12. Mi Abuelita y Los Rosarios
        Arturo "Velaz" Muñoz
      • Chapter 13. Los Aullidos de las Madres
        Sarah Amira de la Garza
      • Chapter 14. my baby wanted an el camino, that’s real
        Diego Medina
      • Chapter 15. Cry Baby
        Kathleen Alcalá
      • Chapter 16. Becoming Indigenous Again: Returning Home and Making the Ghosts Visible
        Juan Pacheco Marcial
      • Chapter 17. cortando las nubes,or, death came on horses
        ire’ne lara silva
      • Chapter 18. Thru the Veil and 32.2480° N, 112.9161° W (Sonoran Desert)
        Roxanna Ivonne Sanchez-Avila

        Part III. Bringing the Borderlands Home: Public Discourses and Theories of the Flesh
      • Chapter 19. Hauntology of the Oppressed: The MeXicana Gothic and Spectral Geographies in Sandra Cisneros’s "Woman Hollering Creek"
        Cathryn J. Merla-Watson
      • Chapter 20. Haunted by Settler Nostalgia: (Lat)Indigenous Specters, White Vampires, and the Historical Amnesia of Twilight
        Susana Loza
      • About the Contributors
      • Index

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