Latinx Representation in Contemporary Popular Culture and New Media / / edited by Anna Marta Marini.

• Superior document: European Perspectives on the United States ; 11
• TeilnehmendeR: Marini, Anna Marta,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2025.; ©2025
• Year of Publication: 2025
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: European Perspectives on the United States ; 11.; Social Sciences E-Books Online, Collection 2025.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (295 pages)

This volume provides a partial mapping of the ambivalent representational forms and cultural politics that have characterized Latinx identity since the 1990s, looking at literary and popular culture texts, as well as new media expressions. The chapters tackle themes related to the diversity of Latinx culture and experience, as represented in different media the borderland context, issues related to gender and sexuality, the US–Mexico borderland context, and the connections between spatiality and Latinx self-representation—sketching the “now” of Latinx representation and considering that “Latinx” is an unstable signifier, and the present, as well as culture and media, are always in motion.

Table of Contents

Front Matter -- Preliminary Material / Editor: Anna Marta Marini -- Introduction / Anna Marta Marini -- Part 1 Cultural Politics and Identity / Editor: Anna Marta Marini -- Chapter 1 “As authentically Latin as possible”: Limits and Reversals of Latinness in Grim Fandango / Michael Docherty -- Chapter 2 #LatinosForTrump: Latinx Social Media Support for Trump’s Presidency and Immigration Restrictions / Armin Langer -- Chapter 3 The History of the Not-So “White” Tiger: the Search for a Puerto Rican Black Panther / Moisés Hassan Bendahan -- Part 2 Gender and Sexuality / Editor: Anna Marta Marini -- Chapter 4 “A girl that could finally do it all”: Cardi B and the US Afro-Latinx Ethno-racial and Feminist Dilemmas / Macarena Martín-Martínez -- Chapter 5 Jennifer Lopez’s Nuyoricanness: Ethnic Dissent in American Popular Culture / Mónica Fernández Jiménez -- Chapter 6 The Depiction of the Black and Latinx Trans Women in Pose (2018–2021): Resistance, Family, and Survivability / J. Javier Torres-Fernández -- Part 3 Latinx Borderlands / Editor: Anna Marta Marini -- Chapter 7 Supernatural is Subaltern: the Border Representation of Latinx Folklore and Martial Arts in Seis Manos / Eduardo González de la Fuente and Angélica Cabrera Torrecilla -- Chapter 8 The “New Mestizas” That Cross Borders: Latina Authors of YAL on the Migrant’s Experience / Lena Elipe Gutiérrez -- Chapter 9 Blurring Borders and Margins through Visual Poetry: Francisco X. Alarcón and Maya Gonzalez’s Picturebooks / Marina Bernardo Flórez -- Part 4 Spatiality and Urban Contexts / Editor: Anna Marta Marini -- Chapter 10 Reading Spatial Violence and Cultural Fantasies in Gabby Rivera, Lilliam Rivera, and Elizabeth Acevedo / Eduardo Barros-Grela -- Chapter 11 The Chicanx Tattoo as a Means of Exercising Cultural Power: a Dramaturgical Analysis / Chiara Lippi -- Chapter 12 Re-writing Latinx Identity in the Barrio: Accumulating Meanings of Graffiti and Murals in Spanish Harlem and Bushwick, Brooklyn / Florian Deckers -- Back Matter -- Index / Editor: Anna Marta Marini.