The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies

Ilan Stavans

Oxford Handbooks

The first handbook on Latino Studies, bringing together 24 leading and emerging scholars to reflect on the development of this new discipline and consider future paths for research.
A self-examination on the role of Latinos in the United States, the collection includes articles on a wide range of fields, including literature, theater, pop culture, religion, linguistics, politics, and urban planning.
Illuminates how Latinos are redefining American identity, offering a new lens to understand today's controversies about immigration, the US-Mexico border, Spanglish, Latinx sexuality, and the double-consciousness of the Latino minority.

The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies

Ilan Stavans

Description

At the beginning of the third decade of the 21st century, the Latino minority, the biggest and fastest growing in the United States, is at a crossroads. Is assimilation taking place in comparable ways to previous immigrant groups? Are the links to the countries of origin being redefined in the age of contested globalism? How are Latinos changing America and how is America changing Latinos? The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies reflects on these questions, offering a sweeping exploration of Latinas and Latinos' complex experiences in the United States.

Edited by leading expert Ilan Stavans, the handbook traces the emergence of Latino studies as a vibrant and interdisciplinary field of research starting in the 1980s, assessing the current state of the discipline while suggesting new paths for exploration. With its twenty-three essays and a conversation by established and emerging scholars, the book discusses various aspects of Latino life and history, from literature, popular culture, and music, to religion, philosophy, and language identity. The articles present new interpretations of important themes such as the Chicano Movement, gender and race relations, the changes in demographics, the tension between rural and urban communities, immigration and the US/Mexico border, the legacy of colonialism, and the controversy surrounding Spanglish. The first handbook on Latino Studies, this collection offers a multifaceted and thought-provoking look at how Latinos are redefining the American identity.

The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies

Ilan Stavans

Oxford Handbooks

Introduction

Contributors

I. Roots, Identities, Connections

1 North - South, East - West: Topographies of Latinidad
By Ilan Stavans

2 Latina/os and Race
By Silvio Torres-Saillant

3 Latinx Midwest Folklore
By Stacey M. Alex, Frederick Luis Aldama

4 Bridges to Cuba and Latina/Latino Studies
By Ruth Behar

5 Atlantic Continuities in Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya
By Sarah Quesada

II. Melting the Pot

6 The Chicano Movement in the New America
By Mario T. Garcia

7 Women, Gender, and Sexuality in Latina/o Culture
By Alicia Arrizón

8 Latino Urbanism and the Gentrifying City
By Erualdo R. González

III. Between Faith and Reason

9 Latino Philosophy
By Susana Nuccetelli

10 Latina/o Religious Studies Since the 1970s
By Felipe Hinojosa

11 Barrio Music, Spirituality, and Social Justice in Latino Hip-Hop
By Alex Nava

IV. Whirling Tongues

12 Notes on Latino Philology
By Ilan Stavans

13 The Bilingualisms of Latino/a Literatures
By Rolando Pérez

14 Rhetoric and Affect in Bilingual Latinx Literature
By Matylda Figlerowicz and Doris Sommer

15 Always in Translation: Ways of Writing in Spanish and English
By Regina Galasso

16 Spanglish: Current Issues, Future Perspectives, and Linguistic Insights
By Silvia Betti and Renata Enghels

V. Ways of Being

17 Latinx Pop Cultural Studies Hoy!
By Frederick Luis Aldama

18 Reflections on Latina/o Theatre
By Debra Castillo

19 Transcolonial Gothic and Decolonial Satire in Ramón Emeterio Betances
By Ivonne M. Garcia

20 A Borderlands History of Latinx Cinema
By Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez

21 Television and its Impact on Latinx Communities
By Mari Castañeda

22 Latinos/as and Sports
By Jorge Iber

Appendix:
Does Latino Literature Matter?: A Conversation
Ilan Stavans and Charles Hatfield

The Oxford Handbook of Latino Studies

Ilan Stavans

Oxford Handbooks

Author Information

Ilan Stavans is Lewis-Sebring Professor of Humanities, Latin American and Latino Culture at Amherst College, publisher of Restless Books, and host of NPR's show "In Contrast." His books include On Borrowed Words (2001), Spanglish: The Making of a New American language (2003), Dictionary Days (2008), Gabriel García Márrquez: The Early Years (2010), Singer's Typewriter and Mine (2012), A Critic's Journey (2013), Quixote: The Novel and the World (2015), and The Seventh Heaven: Travels through Jewish Latin America (2019). He is general editor of The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (2011). He has translated Jorge Luis Borges, Pablo Neruda, and Juan Rulfo into English, Emily Dickinson and Elizabeth Bishop into Spanish, and Cervantes and Shakespeare into Spanglish. His work, translated into twenty languages, has been adapted into film, radio, TV, and theater.

Contributors:

Frederick Luis Aldama, Department of English, Ohio State University

Stacey M. Alex, Center for Latin American Studies, Ohio State University

Alicia Arrizón, Department of Women's Studies, University of California, Riverside

Ruth Behar, Department of Anthropology, University of Michigan

Silvia Betti, Department of Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, University of Bologna

Mari Castañeda, Department of Communication, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Debra Castillo, Latino/a Studies Program, Cornell University

Renata Enghels, Department of Linguistics, Ghent University

Matylda Figlerowicz, Department of Comparative Literature, Harvard University

Regina Galasso, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, University of Massachusetts-Amherst

Ivonne M. Garcia, Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Office, College of Wooster

Mario T. Garcia, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, University of California-Santa Barbara

Erualdo R. González, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies, California State University-Fullerton

Charles Hatfield, Center for U.S.-Latin America Initiatives, The University of Texas at Dallas

Felipe Hinojosa, Department of History, Texas A&M University

Jorge Iber, College of Arts & Sciences, Texas Tech University

Alex Nava, Department of Religious Studies and Classics, University of Arizona

Susana Nuccetelli, Department of Philosophy, St. Cloud State University

Rolando Pérez, Department of Romance Languages, Hunter College

Sarah M. Quesada, Department of English, University of Notre Dame

Paul A. Schroeder Rodríguez, Spanish Department, Amherst College

Doris Sommer, Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, Harvard University

Ilan Stavans, Spanish Department, Amherst College

Silvio Torres-Saillant, English Department, Syracuse University