This book presents a study of the figure of the stranger in US Latinx literary and cultural forms, ranging from contemporary novels through essays to film and transborder art activism.
Esther Álvarez-López is Associate Professor of American Literature at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She has published on ethnic literatures, gender, and intersectionality. Her latest publications are "Identity, De-colonization and Cosmopolitanism in (Afro)Latina Artists' Spoken Word Performances" (2021) and "Strangers, Persisters, and Killjoys: Confronting Gender Inequality through Performance Poetry" (Routledge 2022).
Andrea Fernández-García is Assistant Professor at the University of Oviedo, Spain. She studies the relationship between gender, space and decoloniality in US Latina literature. She is the author of Geographies of Girlhood in US Latina Writing: Decolonizing Spaces and Identities (2020), among other publications.
