{"product_id":"atravesados-essays-on-queer-latinx-young-adult-literature-hardback-9781496854483","title":"Atravesados; Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature (Hardback) 9781496854483","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eAtravesados\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eEssays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eTrevor Boffone (Edited by), Cristina Herrera (Edited by), Frederick Luis Aldama (Afterword by)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9781496854483\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 17 February 2025\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e277 pages\u003cbr\u003e22.9 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm, 0.52 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"A necessary publication that invites us to question and review our notions of Latinidad and gender and sexuality in Latinx YA literature.\" - Carolina Alonso, associate professor of borders and languages, Fort Lewis College\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eContributions by Frederick Luis Aldama, T. Jackie Cuevas, Alexander Lalama, Angel Daniel Matos, Regina Marie Mills, Joseph Miranda, Jesus Montaño, Domino Renee Perez, Regan Postma-Montaño, Cristina Rhodes, and Sonia Alejandra Rodriguez\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAtravesados: Essays on Queer Latinx Young Adult Literature\u003c\/i\u003e shows how Latinx queer YA writers discard the \"same old story,\" and offer critical representations of queerness that broaden YA writing and insist on the presence of queer teens of color. \u003ci\u003eAtravesados\u003c\/i\u003e draws on foundational Chicana queer theorist Gloria Anzaldúa’s notion of \"atravesados\" to speak to the spectrum of queer youth Latinidades as they materialize in YA literature. Los atravesados, according to Anzaldúa, are \"The squint-eyed, the perverse, the queer, the troublesome, the mongrel, the mulato, the half-breed, the half dead; in short, those who cross over, pass over, or through the confines of the ‘normal.’\" Los atravesados reside in the borderlands space of ni de aquí ni de allá, neither here nor there, present yet liminal, their queerness the very source of both frustration and empowerment, a paradox of joy and tragedy. Although written in 1987, Anzaldúa’s theory speaks to the realities of queer Latinx teens that fill the pages of YA literature well into the twenty-first century. Characters such as Juliet from Gabby Rivera’s \u003ci\u003eJuliet Takes a Breath\u003c\/i\u003e, Aaron from Adam Silvera’s \u003ci\u003eMore Happy Than Not\u003c\/i\u003e, or the titular Chulito from Charles Rice-Gonzales’s novel encompass the highs, lows, and everything in-betweenness of queer Latinx teen lived experiences. This collection tells their stories.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContributors speak to the spectrum of queer youth Latinidades as they materialize in YA literature, paying close attention to representation and the ways youth are portrayed—whether accurate or stereotypical. Close attention is paid to books that succeed in broadening the field of YA, highlighting authors that draw from their own lived experiences and situate strong, fully developed characters. Taken together, these essays move beyond the page, explaining to readers why representation and authenticity matter in YA literature, as well as the far-reaching effects they can have for real world queer Latinx teens.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\u003cp\u003eAcknowledgments\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction: Ni de aquí ni de allá: Queering Latinidad, Latinicizing Young Adult Literature\u003cbr\u003eTrevor Boffone and Cristina Herrera\u003cbr\u003eSection One: Articulating the Spectrum of Queer Latinidad\u003cbr\u003eChapter One. \"He Could Still Hear Muffled Voices\": Materializing Queer Latinidad in Aiden Thomas’s \u003ci\u003eCemetery Boys\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAlexander Lalama\u003cbr\u003eChapter Two. When Bisexuality Is Spoken: Normalizing Bi Latino Boys in Adam Silvera’s \u003ci\u003eThey Both Die at the End\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrevor Boffone\u003cbr\u003eChapter Three. Latinx Queer Worldmaking: Boys Loving Boys in Latinx Children’s and Young Adult Literature and Film Adaptations\u003cbr\u003eT. Jackie Cuevas\u003cbr\u003eChapter Four. \"Everyone Is Gay\": Queer Latina Identity in Isabel Millán’s \u003ci\u003eChabelita’s Heart \u003c\/i\u003eand Gabby Rivera’s\u003ci\u003e Juliet Takes a Breath\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSonia Alejandra Rodríguez\u003cbr\u003eSection Two: Queerness and Bodies in Transformation\u003cbr\u003eChapter Five. Transformation and the Queer Latinx Body in the Collected Works of Anna-Marie McLemore\u003cbr\u003eCristina Rhodes\u003cbr\u003eChapter Six. \"We Are Something New\": Disability and Latinx Adolescence in Mia García’s \u003ci\u003eThe Resolutions\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCristina Herrera\u003cbr\u003eChapter Seven. \"Breathing Room\": Sustaining Queer Brown Socialities in the Latinx Bildungsroman\u003cbr\u003eJoseph Isaac Miranda\u003cbr\u003eSection Three: (Alternative) Spaces of Queer Latinidades\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eight. Queering TikTok: Gen Z’s Latinx BookTok and Adam Silvera’s \u003ci\u003eThey Both Die at the End\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTrevor Boffone\u003cbr\u003eChapter Nine. Sideways Latinx Queerness in Young Adult Video Games: \u003ci\u003eLife Is Strange 2 \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eGone Home\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eRegina Marie Mills\u003cbr\u003eChapter Ten. Atravesando Nepantla: Queer Familia in Chicanx and Mexican Young Adult Novels\u003cbr\u003eJesus Montaño and Regan Postma-Montaño\u003cbr\u003eSection Four: Queer Futurities\u003cbr\u003eChapter Eleven. Roses and Remedios: La Llorona’s Queer Children in \u003ci\u003eWhen the Moon Was Ours\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003eDomino Renee Perez\u003cbr\u003eChapter Twelve. \"Silence, at Least Right Now, Equals My Survival\": The Absence of AIDS in the \u003ci\u003eAristotle and Dante \u003c\/i\u003eSeries\u003cbr\u003eAngel Daniel Matos\u003cbr\u003eChapter Thirteen. Imagining the Future: The (Im)Possibilities of Queerness in Two Latinx Speculative Young Adult Novels\u003cbr\u003eCristina Rhodes\u003cbr\u003eAfterword: Daydreams Made Real: New Narrative Maps of Resplendent Queer Latinx Futurities\u003cbr\u003eFrederick Luis Aldama\u003cbr\u003eAbout the Contributors\u003cbr\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"University Press of Mississippi","offers":[{"title":"Brand New","offer_id":52607726485784,"sku":"9781496854483","price":66.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/atravesados-essays-on-queer-latinx-young-adult-literature-hardback-9781496854483","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}