Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. List of Illustrations vii
4. Preface ¡Ay Tú! ¡Sí Yo! Nosotrxs ix
5. Part I ¡Ay, Qué Rico!
6. chapter 1. Lingering with Complicity in Caramelo 13
7. chapter 2 The Racial City 31
8. chapter 3 Telenovela Feeling in Sandra Cisneros’s Loose Woman 47
9. chapter 4 ”You We re Telling Cochinadas” 63
10. chapter 5 Mapping the Decolonial 81
11. Part II Love, Shame, and Sinvergüenzas
12. chapter 6. “Love the Only Way I Know How”: Cultivating Erot Conocimiento in the Work of Sandra Cisneros 99
13. chapter 7 From Marginal to Sin Vergüenza 119
14. chapter 8 The Loose Woman and the Men of Ill Repute 137
15. chapter 9 Wild, Wicked, and Crazy Brave Tongues 155
16. chapter 10 ”Hay Que Inventarnos / We Must Invent Ourselves” 173
17. chapter 11 Faxes, Friendship, and the Rise of Chicana Literature 195
18. Part III ¡Adelante! Seeing and Listening with Cisneros
19. chapter 12. La Sandra como Artista: The Visual Cisneros 215
20. chapter 13 Sin Vergüenza 237
21. Acknowledgments 251
22. Contributors 253
23. Index 257