Translocalities/Translocalidades

<div><i>Translocalities/Translocalidades</i> is a path-breaking collection of essays on Latin American Caribbean and United States-based Latina feminisms and their multiple translations and cross-pollinations. The contributors come from countries throughout the Américas and are based in diverse disciplines including media studies literature Chicana/o studies and political science. Together they advocate a hemispheric politics based on the knowledge that today many sorts of Latin/o-americanidades-Afro queer indigenous feminist and so on-are constructed through processes of translocation. <i>Latinidad</i> in the South North and Caribbean middle of the Américas is constituted out of the intersections of the intensified cross-border transcultural and translocal flows that characterize contemporary transmigration throughout the hemisphere from La Paz to Buenos Aires to Chicago and back again. Rather than immigrating and assimilating many people in the Latin/a Américas increasingly move back and forth between localities between historically situated and culturally specific though increasingly porous places across multiple borders and not just between nations. The contributors deem these multidirectional crossings and movements and the positionalities engendered translocalities/<i>translocalidades</i>.<br><br>Contributors. Sonia E. Alvarez Kiran Asher Victoria (Vicky) M. Bañales Marisa Belausteguigoitia Rius Maylei Blackwell Cruz C. Bueno Pascha Bueno-Hansen Mirangela Buggs Teresa Carrillo Claudia de Lima Costa Isabel Espinal Verónica Feliu Macarena Gómez-Barris Rebecca J. Hester Norma Klahn Agustín Lao-Montes Suzana Maia Márgara Millán Adriana Piscitelli Ana Rebeca Prada Ester R. Shapiro Simone Pereira Schmidt Millie Thayer</div>