ABSTRACT
This introduction presents an overall view of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. This book provides the first comprehensive guide to teaching Latino/a literature in all varieties of learning environments. Essays by internationally renowned scholars offer an array of approaches and methods for the teaching of novels, short stories, plays, poetry, autobiography, testimonial texts, comic books, children's and young adult literature, films, performance art, and multi-media digital texts, among others. The essays provide conceptual vocabularies and tools to help teachers design courses that pay attention to issues of: form across a range of storytelling media, content such as theme and character, historical periods, linguistic communities, and regions, institutional classroom settings. The book innovatively adds to and complicates the broader humanities curriculum by offering new possibilities for pedagogical practice. The survival of Latinos stretches across time and place.
