Cover ; Half Title ; Title Page ; Copyright Page ; Table of Contents ; List of Illustrations ; Notes on contributors; Introduction: what are we teaching when teaching Latino/a literature? ; Part I: Teaching foundational moments ; 1. Recovered and recovery texts of the nineteenth century ; 2. Modernism, modernity, and U.S. Latino/a literature ; 3. Latino/a queer expressions ; 4. Spanglish in the classroom: a linguistic approach to code-switching in Latino/a literature ; 5. Crisscrossed languages; 6. Transnational forms ; 7. Latino literary nonfiction
Part II: Teaching parts that make up the Latino/a whole 8. Teaching Mexican American/Chicano authors ; 9. Teaching the Hispanophone Caribbean ; 10. Teaching Boricua literature ; 11. Central American U.S. Latinos ; Part III: Teaching poetry, theatre, and performance arts ; 12. Teaching U.S. Latino/a poetry in the age of social media ; 13. Theater in the Latino/a Literature classroom ; 14. Teaching U.S. Latino/a per formance; 15. Performance pedagogy in the Latino literature classroom: Guillermo Gómez-Peña's La Pocha Nostra ; Part IV: Other Latino/a forms and spaces
16. Teaching comics by and about Latinos/as 17. Crowdsourcing Latino literary study: participatory learning and enhanced e-books ; 18. Latino/a young adult and children's literature ; 19. Teaching matters of class and style with chica lit ; 20. Teaching the suburbs ; 21. Defamiliarized bodies: disability studies in the Latino/a literature classroom ; Part V: Snapshots: Case studies in action ; 22. Teaching Oscar ""Zeta" Acosta ; 23. Teaching Gloria Anzaldúa and Cherríe Moraga ; 24. Teaching Ana Castillo: Part 1 ; 25. Teaching Ana Castillo: Part 2
26. Teaching Sandra Cisneros's House on Mango Street 27. Teaching Denise Chávez and Pat Mora ; 28. Teaching Jimmy Santiago Baca ; 29. Teaching Junot Díaz ; 30. Teaching Cristina García ; 31. Teaching Arturo Islas ; 32. Teaching Andrés Montoya ; 33. Teaching Richard Rodriguez ; 34. Teaching María Amparo Ruiz de Burton ; 35. Teaching Luis Valdez and Zoot Suit ; 36. Teaching the fiction of Helena María Viramontes ; Glossary; Suggested further reading; Bibliography; Index
