The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Visions Science Fiction, Fantasy, Gothic, and Horror

Introduction: The Restorative Pessimism of the Latinx Speculative Arts
Cathryn J. Merla-Watson, Matthew David Goodwin, Taryne Jade Taylor

PART I: Constellating Genres, Mediums, and World-Making Across the Latinx Speculative Arts

1. Latinx Fantasy: Redefining Genre Boundaries and History
Taryne Jade Taylor

2. Sites and Frights of Latinx Gothic and Horror
Cathryn J. Merla-Watson

3. The Many Transmutations of Latinx Science Fiction
Matthew David Goodwin

PART II: Speculative Countercurrents, Undercurrents, and Nuevas Ondas

4. Gender, Sex, and Viral Mestizajes in Ernest Hogan's High Aztech
Karina Vado

5. Visions of Latinidad, Happily Ever After: Romance as a Speculative Genre
Marcela Di Blasi

6. Facing the Future: The Blue Men and Green Queens of Chicanx Art
Robb Hernández

7. Beyond Afrofuturism: Rasquache Probing and Caribbean Speculative Literature
Belinda Deneen Wallace

8. Latinx Speculative Historical Materialism: The Petite Bourgeois Turn in Latinx Studies and Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita's Post-Latinx Marxist Revolutionary Synthesis
B.V. Olguín

9. ¡Latinxfuturism Ahora!: A Digital Artifact Defining the First U.S. Latinx Science Fiction Collection
David Sandner

10. An Invitation to the Nagual Choir: A Manifesto of the Unitalicized
Jason Baltazar

PART III: Other Routes of Terror and Horror

11. Revolutionizing Horror: A Conversation with Richard Gamboa on the Making of BRUJOS
Maria Josefina Saldaña-Portillo

12. Strangely Familiar: Reanimation and Justice in Black and Latinx Reimaginings of Frankenstein
Jesus Montaño

13. Gothic Inversion in Victor LaValle's The Ballad of Black Tom and Silvia Garcia-Moreno's The Daughter of Dr. Moreau
Jeffrey Andrew Weinstock

14. Film, Folklore, and Mexican American Horror: A Dialogue with Miguel "Mickey" Martinez
Sydni Salinas

15. Monstruos Pequeños, Grandes Ideologías: Transformational Consciousness and Subjectivity in Latinx Adolescent Literature
Stephanie Schoellman

16. An Ode to Chuecas y Monstras and Other Tejana-Border Goth Personas
Marisela Barrera

17. What Makes a Mestiza Desirable? Desire and the Juxtapolitical Gothic in Silvia Moreno-García's Mexican Gothic
Tace Hedrick

18. Telenovela Horror: Gothic Rewritings in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic and Isabel Cañas' The Hacienda
Ivonne M. García

PART IV: Latinx Revelations

19. A Conversation with Celeste De Luna: Chicanafuturism and Etching Spaces for Tejanxs
Cathryn J. Merla-Watson

20. Why to Preserve a Wild Economy, Or, A Double Apocalypse of UN Ocean Policy
David Robledo

21. Disasters and Decolonization: Carlos Raquel Rivera's Visual Art and Imagining Puerto Rico's Future
Ian Seavey

22. City of Me: A Millennial Chicano Reflection on Fashioned Memory & Zoot-suited Spectres in Penny Dreadful: City of Angels
Nicholas Centino

23. "To think otherwise would be absurd": Decolonization and Narrative Recuperation in Silvia Moreno-Garcia's Mexican Gothic
Cristina Rhodes

24. Revolutions are Built on Hope: A Critical Examination of Cassian Andor in the Trump Era
Bernadette Calafell

25. "We've always been writing": An Interview with Donna Barba Higuera on Latinx Teen and Kid Lit
Amanda Barrera

26. "Moving past the narratives they expect of us": A Conversation with Richie Narvaez
David J. Vázquez

Part V: Latinx Time-Play and the Speculative Present

27. This Place, in Time: Letter to a Friend in Days Unknown
Jonathan Leal

28. Time Travel as Recuperation of Slave Histories in Mayra Santos-Febres' Fe en disfraz
Karen Muñoz Christian

29. Visual Pláticas: La Galaxia Tortilla
Christen Sperry García and Leslie C. Sotomayor

30. On Unspeakability: A Conversation with Ilan Stavans
Matthew David Goodwin

31. The Perform-antics of Cosmic Citizenship in Project MASA5.5
Katherine Deck-Portillo

32. Dungeons, Dragons, and the Duende
William Alexander

33. An Auto-Speculative Odyssey
Frederick Luis Aldama and Miguel Ángel Hernández

Part VI: A Lo Rasquache: Strange New Technologies

34. Speculative Shakespeare and the Queer, Trans, Chicanx Futurity of Gregg Barrios's I-DJ
Katherine Gillen

35. Rasquache Futures and Latinx Cinema: A Conversation with Alex Rivera
Matthew David Goodwin

36. Eco-Tech Horizons: Liberation and Future Visions in Daizee & the Dukes Exploring Chicanafuturism at the Borderlands
Elvira Carrizal-Dukes

37. Julio Torres: Reflections on Latinx Futurism and the Surreal Late-Stage Capitalist Hellscape Imaginary
Grisel Acosta

38. Speculative Borders in Fernando A. Flores's Tears of a Trufflepig and Pedro Cabiya's "The Clarification Oral History Project"
Samuel Ginsburg

39. Latinx Futurisms as Pedagogy: Speculative Design for Justice-Oriented Technological Futures
Santiago Ojeda-Ramirez and Kylie Peppler

40. Flesh/Earth/Cosmos: John Jairo Valencia's Matriarchal Memory ss Xicanafuturism
Kristian E. Vasquez

41. Lunar Braceros: 2125-2148 and the History of the Future: An Interview with Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita
Curtis Marez

Part VII: CoFutures in the Pluriverse

42. "Something Old, Some Place New": Caribbean Speculative Narratives in Short Form
Jacinth Howard

43. Awakening from 'Old West dreams': Tradaptation, Latinx Utopian Futurity, and the Weird Western in Anaya's Shaman Winter
Micah Donohue

44. Fronteras del Futuro: Art in New Mexico and Beyond
Jadira Gurule

45. Daring to Exist: A Trans Latinx/Indigenous Fairy Tale
Isabel Millán

46. Health Futurism: Tentacle as a Form of Stakeholder Engagement to Improve Transgender Health Care in the Caribbean
Jarrel De Matas

47. Assembling Empire: Biopower, Necroforce, and the Colonial Body in Alexandro Segade's The Context
Kristy Ulibarri

48. Drop Dead Catrina: Queer Performance and Latinx Visions in the Río Grande Valley
Andrés Amado

49. Old Body, Old City, Old Soul: Queer Trans Utopia and Latinxfuturism
Elí Romero Colón

50. Decolonial Futurities in Shadowshaper by Daniel José Older and Never Look Back by Lilliam Rivera
Dolores Alcaide Ramirez

Afterword
Chicago Dreamers and Michael Zapata

Biography

Matthew David Goodwin is an Associate Professor in the Chicana/o Studies Department at the University of New Mexico.  His research is centered on Chicanx/Latinx science fiction and Critical Mystery Studies. He is a co-editor of the Latinx Archive speculative fiction trilogy: Latinx Rising, Speculative Fiction for Dreamers, and Not Your Papi’s Utopia. He has a PhD in Comparative Literature from UMASS Amherst, and is an active agent in the very much real Speculative Detective Agency.

Cathryn Merla-Watson is an Associate Professor in Literatures and Cultural Studies at the University of Texas, Río Grande Valley. She is the co-editor of Altermundos: Latin@ Speculative Literature, Film (2017), which won the Before Columbus American Book Award and won first place for the Best Cover Illustration at the 2017 International Latino Book Awards.

Taryne Jade Taylor is an Associate Professor of Science Fiction Studies at Florida Atlantic University. Taylor is the co-editor of the Routledge Handbook to CoFuturisms with Grace Dillon, Isiah Lavender III, and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay as well as the The Routledge Handbook of Latinx Visions with Matthew David Goodwin and Cathryn Merla-Watson. Her research focuses on the politics of representation in speculative fiction, particularly Latinx futurisms and feminist sf. Taylor is currently working on her monograph on Latinx Futurisms which is forthcoming from the New Suns Series at Ohio State University Press.