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 |19 pages

Introduction

Putting the Pop in Latina/o Culture

part |108 pages

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

chapter |11 pages

Latina/os On TV!

A Proud (and Ongoing) Struggle Over Representation and Authorship

chapter |15 pages

“¡Vámonos! Let's Go!”

Latina/o Children's Television

chapter |8 pages

Canta y no llores

Life and Latinidad in Children's Animation

chapter |14 pages

Why Videogames

Ludology Meets Latino Studies

part |60 pages

Pop Poetics of Tongues Untied

chapter |11 pages

Performing Mestizaje

Making Indigenous Acts Visible in Latina/o Popular Culture

chapter |9 pages

Brown Bodies on the Great White Way

Latina/o Theater, Pop Culture, and Broadway

chapter |11 pages

Siempre Pa'l Arte

The Passions of Latina/o Spoken Word

chapter |11 pages

Postindustrial Pinto Poetics and New Millennial Maiz Narratives

Race and Place in Chicano Hip Hop

chapter |6 pages

Punk Spanglish

part |48 pages

Pop Artivist Reclamations

chapter |14 pages

Hermandad, Arte and Rebeldía

Mexican Popular Art in New York City

chapter |9 pages

Inexact Revolutions

Understanding Latino Pop Art

chapter |11 pages

Revising the Archive

Documentary Portraiture in the Photography of Delilah Montoya

part |117 pages

Quotidian Pop

chapter |17 pages

Farmworker-to-Table Mexican

Decolonizing Haute Cuisine

chapter |12 pages

Lowrider Publics

Aesthetics and Contested Communities

chapter |12 pages

Barrio Ritual and Pop Rite

Quinceañeras in the Folklore–Popular Culture Borderlands

chapter |10 pages

Cultura Joteria

The Ins and Outs of Latina/o Popular Culture

chapter |13 pages

Bodies in Motion

Latina/o Popular Culture as Rasquache Resistance

chapter |11 pages

Claiming Style, Consuming Culture

The Politics of Latina Self-Styling and Fashion Lines

part |69 pages

Pop Rituals of Life in Death

chapter |13 pages

Saints and the Secular

La Santísma Muerte

chapter |11 pages

Day of the Dead

Decolonial Expressions in Pop de los Muertos

chapter |13 pages

Liberanos de todo Mal/But Deliver Us from Evil

Latina/o Monsters Theory and the Outlining of our Phantasmagoric Landscapes

chapter |19 pages

Narco Cultura

chapter |11 pages

Smuggling as a Spectacle

Irregular Migration and Coyotes in Contemporary U.S. Latino Popular Culture

chapter |10 pages

Afterword

A Latino Pop Quartet for the Ontologically Complex Smartphone Age