Monsters and Saints

Contributions by Kathleen Alcalá Sarah Amira de la Garza Sarah De Los Santos Upton Moises Gonzales Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza Leandra H. Hernández Spencer R. Herrera Brenda Selena Lara Susana Loza Juan Pacheco Marcial Amanda R. Martinez Diana Isabel Martínez Diego Medina Cathryn J. Merla-Watson Arturo Velaz Muñoz Eric Murillo Saul Ramirez Roxanna Ivonne Sanchez-Avila ire'ne lara silva Lizzeth Tecuatl Cuaxiloa and Bianca Tonantzin Zamora <p/> <i>Monsters and Saints: LatIndigenous Landscapes and Spectral Storytelling </i>is a collection of stories poetry art and essays divining the contemporary intersection of Latinx and Indigenous cultures from the American Southwest Mexico and Central and South America. To give voice to this complicated identity this volume investigates how cultures of ghost storytelling foreground a sense of belonging and home in people from LatIndigenous landscapes. <i>Monsters and Saints </i>reflects intersectional and intergenerational understandings of lived experiences bodies and traumas as narrated through embodied hauntings. <p/> Contributions to this anthology represent a commitment to thoughtful inquiry into the ways storytelling assigns meaning through labels like monster saint and ghost particularly as these unfold in the context of global migration. For many marginalized and displaced peoples a sense of belonging is always haunted through historical exclusion from an original homespace. This exclusion further manifests as limited bodily autonomy. By locating the concept of home as beyond physical constructs the volume argues that spectral stories and storytelling practices of LatIndigeneity (re)configure affective states and spaces of being becoming migrating displacing and belonging.