Larissa Mercado-Lopez is a professor of women's, gender & sexuality studies at California State University, Fresno. She is the editor of multiple anthologies on Latinx literature, Chicanx children's literature, and the life and work of Gloria E. Anzaldua. Yndalecio Hinojosa is an associate professor of English at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi, where he serves as the associate dean for the College of Liberal Arts. He is a coeditor of Open Words: Access and English Studies and coeditor of Bordered Writers: Latinx Identities and Literacy Practices at Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
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List of Illustrations Remembering Selena: Letter to Our Readers (Larissa M. Mercado-LOpez and Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa) La flor ofrenda (Aideed Medina, translated by Rossy Evelin Lima) Part I. Entre a mi mundo: Expressions and Embodiments of Selena Chapter 1. Sounds of Nepantla: Where Selena Found Her Voice (Francisco CantU) Chapter 2. "More Mexican than the Mexicans and More American than the Americans": The Role of Selenidad in the Construction of Nepantlerx Identities (Sarah De Los Santos Upton and Leandra H. HernAndez) Chapter 3. Call it fodder. Call it flame. I call it cariNo. (Joe JimEnez) Chapter 4. Divas Latinas: Selena and the Fashioning of Queer Latinidad (Ruben Ernesto Zecena) Part II. Fotos y recuerdos: Public Remembrances of Selena Chapter 5. Selena as Iconography in Chicana/o/x Muralism in the United States (Mariana Ruiz-GonzAlez) Chapter 6. Escucha La Reina: Making Meaning of the Memory of Selena (Amanda Longoria Marquez) Chapter 7. Memorials Then and Now: Re/membering Selena in el Mundo de Corpus Christi, Her Hometown (Susan Garza, Kristina Gutierrez, and Danyela Fonseca) Chapter 8. Selena and Duvina (Norma Elia CantU) Part III. Dreaming of You: Selena Stories and Pedagogies Chapter 9. A Selena Story: Teaching and Learning About La Reina de la MUsica Tejana (Sonya Aleman) Chapter 10. Lowriding with Selena: A Chicano/a Father-Daughter Pedagogy (Nichole Margarita Garcia and Richard J. Garcia) Chapter 11. Selena Epistemology and Survival in Academia (Erin E. Doran and CristObal Salinas Jr.) 'Till Tomorrow (Rossy Evelin Lima) Acknowledgments Contributors Index