ABSTRACT

Latina/o popular culture has experienced major growth and change with the expanding demographic of Latina/os in mainstream media. In The Routledge Companion to Latina/o Pop Culture, contributors pay serious critical attention to all facets of Latina/o popular culture including TV, films, performance art, food, lowrider culture, theatre, photography, dance, pulp fiction, music, comic books, video games, news, web, and digital media, healing rituals, quinceñeras, and much more.

Features include:

  • consideration of differences between pop culture made by and about Latina/os;
  • comprehensive and critical analyses of various pop cultural forms;
  • concrete and detailed treatments of major primary works from children’s television to representations of dia de los muertos;
  • new perspectives on the political, social, and historical dynamic of Latina/o pop culture;

Chapters select, summarize, explain, contextualize and assess key critical interpretations, perspectives, developments and debates in Latina/o popular cultural studies. A vitally engaging and informative volume, this compliation of wide-ranging case studies in Latina/o pop culture phenomena encourages scholars and students to view Latina/o pop culture within the broader study of global popular culture.

Contributors: Stacey Alex, Cecilia Aragon, Mary Beltrán, William A. Calvo-Quirós, Melissa Castillo-Garsow, Nicholas Centino, Ben Chappell, Fabio Chee, Osvaldo Cleger, David A. Colón, Marivel T. Danielson, Laura Fernández, Camilla Fojas, Kathryn M. Frank, Enrique García, Christopher González, Rachel González-Martin, Matthew David Goodwin, Ellie D. Hernandez, Jorge Iber, Guisela Latorre, Stephanie Lewthwaite, Richard Alexander Lou, Stacy I. Macías, Desirée Martin, Paloma Martínez-Cruz, Pancho McFarland, Cruz Medina, Isabel Millán, Amelia María de la Luz Montes, William Anthony Nericcio, William Orchard, Rocío Isabel Prado, Ryan Rashotte, Cristina Rivera, Gabriella Sanchez, Ilan Stavans

Frederick Luis Aldama is Arts and Humanities Distinguished Professor of English and University Distinguished Scholar at the Ohio State University where he is also founder and director of LASER and the Humanities & Cognitive Sciences High School Summer Institute. He is author, co-author, and editor of over 24 books, including the Routledge Concise History of Latino/a Literature and Latino/a Literature in the Classroom.

chapter |20 pages

Introduction: Putting the Pop in Latina/o Culture

ByFREDERICK LUIS ALDAMA

part |2 pages

PART I Televisual, Reel, Animated, Comic, Digital, and Speculative Pop Spaces

chapter 2|10 pages

Latino Film in the End Times

ByCAMILLA FOJAS

chapter 3|15 pages

“¡Vámonos! Let’s Go!”: Latina/o Children’s Television

ByISABEL MILLÁN

chapter 5|8 pages

Canta y no Llores: Life and Latinidad in Children’s Animation

ByLAURA FERNÁNDEZ

chapter 6|11 pages

Beyond the “Digital Divide” and Latina/o Pop

ByKATHRYN M. FRANK

chapter 7|14 pages

Why Videogames: Ludology Meets Latino Studies

ByOSVALDO CLEGER

chapter 8|9 pages

The Industry and Aesthetics of Latina/o Comic Books

ByENRIQUE GARCÍA

chapter 9|10 pages

Science Fiction and Latino Studies Today … and in the Future

ByFABIO CHEE

chapter 10|9 pages

The Technology of Labor, Migration, and Protest

ByMATTHEW DAVID GOODWIN

part |2 pages

PART II Pop Poetics of Tongues Untied

chapter 11|11 pages

Performing Mestizaje: Making Indigenous Acts Visible in Latina/o Popular Culture

ByCECILIA JOSEPHINE ARAGÓN

chapter 12|9 pages

Brown Bodies on the Great White Way: Latina/o Theater, Pop Culture, and Broadway

Byand Broadway WILLIAM ORCHARD

chapter 13|11 pages

Siempre Pa’l Arte: The Passions of Latina/o Spoken Word

ByDAVID A. COLÓN

chapter 15|6 pages

Punk Spanglish

ByILAN STAVANS

chapter 16|10 pages

Latino Radio and Counter Epistemologies

BySTACEY ALEX

part |2 pages

PART III Pop Artivist Reclamations

chapter 17|14 pages

Hermandad, Arte and Rebeldía: Mexican Popular Art in New York City

ByMELISSA CASTILLO-GARSOW

chapter 18|9 pages

Inexact Revolutions: Understanding Latino Pop Art

ByROCIO ISABEL PRADO

chapter 19|12 pages

Installation Art, Transnationalism and the Chinese-Chicano Experience

ByRICHARD ALEXANDER LOU AND GUISELA LATORRE

part |2 pages

PART IV Quotidian Pop

chapter 21|17 pages

Farmworker-to-Table Mexican: Decolonizing Haute Cuisine

ByPALOMA MARTÍNEZ-CRUZ

chapter 22|11 pages

The Rituals of Health

ByAMELIA MARÍA DE LA LUZ MONTES

chapter 23|12 pages

Lowrider Publics: Aesthetics and Contested Communities

ByBEN CHAPPELL

chapter 25|10 pages

Cultura Joteria: The Ins and Outs of Latina/o Popular Culture

ByELLIE D. HERNANDEZ

chapter 26|9 pages

Raza Rockabilly and Greaser Cultura

ByNICHOLAS CENTINO

chapter 27|13 pages

Bodies in Motion: Latina/o Popular Culture as Rasquache Resistance

ByMARIVEL T. DANIELSON

chapter 29|11 pages

Latina/os and the American Sports Landscape

ByCHRISTOPHER GONZÁLEZ

part |2 pages

PART V Pop Rituals of Life in Death

chapter 31|13 pages

Saints and the Secular: La Santísma Muerte

ByDESIRÉE MARTÍN

chapter 32|11 pages

Day of the Dead: Decolonial Expressions in Pop de los Muertos

ByCRUZ MEDINA

chapter 34|19 pages

Narco Cultura

ByRYAN RASHOTTE

chapter 35|11 pages

Smuggling as a Spectacle: Irregular Migration and Coyotes in Contemporary U.S. Latino Popular Culture

ByContemporary U.S. Latino Popular Culture GABRIELLA SANCHEZ