Diálogo, an Interdisciplinary Studies Journal Recent Issues

Latinx Detective and Noir Narratives

Editors: Michael Cucher, William Arce, and José Navarro

Articles

Investigating Gender and Sexuality

• The Utopian Function of Queer Chicano Chutzpah: Imagining a Future Beyond HIV/AIDS in Michael Nava’s Henry Rios Novels

by Michael Cucher

• Border Desires: Mapping Queer Worlds in the Work of Benjamin Alire Saénz

by Ruben Zecena

• The Chicana Detective: Reimagining Archetypes and Chicana Histories in the Historical Mystery

by Crystal R. Pérez

To Live and Die in LA

• A Browner Shade of Noir: Luis Valdez’s Zoot Suit as Decolonial Noir

by José Navarro

• Latinx Noir: Reading The Tattooed Soldier as a Los Angeles Crime Story

by Annemarie Pérez

• Murder in Military Masculinity in Lucha Corpi’s Detective Novel Eulogy for a Brown Angel

by William Arce

Detective Fiction beyond Borders

• “All This Shit Was Also the Border”: Mediation and Generic Borders in Paco Ignacio Taibo II’s Detective Fiction

by Sean Cobb

• How Do Detectives Survive Their Novels? Positionality, Survival, and Literary Universes in Chicana/o Detective Fiction and Mexican Narcoliterature

by Antonio Paniagua Guzmán

Interviews

• Interview with Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Author of the Romilia Chacón Detective Series

by William Arce

• The Art of Detection: An Interview with Carmen Amato, Author of the Award-Winning Emilia Cruz Mystery Series

by Shanell Contreras

• A Conversation with Aya de León, Author of the Justice Hustler Series

by Michael Cucher

About the Artist

• Salomón Huerta
• Red and Brown Fresno: David Bacon

Creative Writing

• “This Is Not How You Spell Serenity” (excerpt from the new Ivon Villa Mystery)

by Alicia Gaspar de Alba

Book/Film/Media Review

• Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato

reviewed by Sarah Bey West

• Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance by Sandra Ruiz

reviewed by Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes

• Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial edited by Sarah D. Wald, David J. Vásquez, Priscilla Solis Ybarra, and Sarah Jaquette Ray

Reviewed by Grisel Y. Acosta

• The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917-1954 by S. Deborah Kang

Reviewed by John Bradley

Cartografías de la vilencia en discursividades heterogéneas contemporáneas

Editors: Rocío Ferreira and Isabel Quintana

• Tiempos de crisis entre distopías y utopías

by Adriana Rodríguez Pérsico

• Zona dark de Monteserrat Álvarez: “Lo que no se dijo” de la violencia política peruana y la fractura nacional

by Luis Fernando Chueca

• Breaking the Silence: Telling Herstories on the Peruvian Post-Internal Armed Conflict

by Rocío Ferreira

• Restos de violencia en la memoria del cuerpo: Lecturas alrededor de lon años 70 en El Diente de mamá y Entre almohadones de María Ledesma

by Paula Siganevich

• ¿Cómo exhibir un cuerpo que ya no habla? Beya y la potencia del arte y la literatura frente a la violencia corporal

by Marina Cecilia Rios

• De la pampa virilizada al sur transformista: Un periplo de insurgencias en ficciones argentinas actuales

by Lucía De Leon

• Distorsión de lo español en las pampas: Proyección hispanoamericana de la estrategia realista de Fogwill

by Juan Pablo Luppi

• El ejercicio del poder punitivo, represivo y b´lico estatal en Colombia: Delimitacíon temporal y apuntes preliminares

by Alba L. Delgado

• Ontological Migrations in José María Arguedas’s Tupac Amaru Kamaq Taytanchisman: The Triumph of Runa Migrants Against Colonial Violence in Lima

by Christian Elguera

General Research Articles

• Love and Violence: El Salvador’s Revolution and the Specter of the Vietnam War in Demetria Martinez’s Mother Tongue

by William Arcé

• Kiltro, película chilena de artes mariales: Orientalismos e identidades en tiempos de COVID-19

by Moisés Park

About the Artist

• De la fragmentacíon a la integración: La compleja evolución de la vida interior y la expresión artística en la obra Martivón Galindo

by Isidra Mencos

Creative Writing

Poesía (Poetry):

• “Como una mendiga”
• “7 años de silencio 1983–1991”
• “7 años + de silencio 1993–2000”
• “pabellón 7A/sacrificio”

by Victoria Guerrero Peirano

• “Acquí homenajeamos a la bellez peruana”
• “A tu nombre le arrancaron los sueños”

by Roxana Crisólogo Correa

• “trauma”
• “crecimiento”
• “contemplación”
• “Smack Helados”
• “acontecimiento”

by Silvia Goldman

• “No hay cuerpo para todos esos huesos bajo esta piel que apenas ha logrado”
• “Entre verdugos”

by Cecilia Podestá

• “Mujeres a la conducción de trenes”
• “Concentrate en el presente”

by Victoria Cóccaro

Narrativa (Narrative):

• Leche negra

by Oswaldo Estrada

• El pingüino andino

by Irma del Águila

• Allá afuera

by Azucena Galettini

• Preguntas sin respuestas: Apuntes sobre la enseñanza del Conflicto Armado en Perú

by Jesús Cossio

Book/Film/Media Review

• Perhaps de Erika Almenara

Reviewed by Rocío Ferreira

Screening the Indigenous Experience in Contemporary Latin American Cinema

Editors: Manuel Medina and Bridget Franco

• Peliculas en lenguas indigenas producidas en paises hispanohablantes: Ixcanul y El Abrazo de la serpiente

by Júlia González de Canales Carcereny

• Mirada común a las visiones plurales: Los festivales de cine indigena en Brasil

by Luciana de Paula Freitas

• Filmic Disciples and Indigenous Knowledges: The Pedagogical Imperative in El abrazo de la serpiente (Ciro Guerra, 2015)

by Charlotte Gleghorn

• Descolonizando el texto visual: Bases para interpretar cuatro estéticas cinematográficas indigenistas ecuatorianas del siglo XXI

by Henry Tarco Carrera

• Una discusíon sobre el racismo y el trabajo doméstico en Roma, de Alfonso Cuarón

by Tereza María Spyer Dulci y Alfredo Nava Sánchez

• Thunder and Terror: Storm as Allegory in Tatiana Huezo’s Tempestad

by Patrick Ridge

• Populating the Margins: Hope and Healing in Claudia Llosa’s La teta asustada

by Douglas J. Weatherford

• Collective Disruptions of Bare Life in Marcela Zamora’s María en tierra de nadie

by Esteban E. Loustaunau

• “My Camera is Not a Weapon”: Indigenous Erasure in Lucia Puenzo’s Wakolda

by Bridget Franco

• Identidad y resistencia en A tus espaldas de Tito Jara

by Manuel Medina

About the Artist

• Nicolás de Jesús

Book/Film/Media Reviews

• From Filmmaker Warriors to Flash Drive Shamans: Indigenous Media Production and Engagement in Latin America, edited by Richard Pace

Reviewed by Argelia González Hurtado