Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface ix
4. Introduction: Gender, War, and Activism in Contemporary U.S. Latina/o Cultural Production 1
5. 1. Gender, Difference, and the FSLN Insurrection 27
6. 2. “I Have Something to Tell You”: Polyvocality, Theater, and the Performance of Solidarity in U.S. Latina Narratives of the Guatemalan Civil War 64
7. 3. Demetria Martínez’s Mother Tongue and the Politics of Decolonial Love 92
8. 4. Father, Army, Nation: Familial Discourse and Ambivalent Homonationalism in José Zuniga’s Soldier of the Year 121
9. 5. Camilo Mejía’s Public Rebellion and the Formation of Transnational Latina/o Identity 156
10. Coda 189
11. Notes 197
12. Works Cited 215
13. Index 229
14. About the Author 235