Contents
Introduction. Reading U.S. Latino/a Literature through Capitalism — and Vice Versa / Carlos Gallego and Marcial González
Chapter 1. Marxism, Materialism, and Latino/a Literature: What Is at Stake? / Rosaura Sánchez and Beatrice Pita
Chapter 2. "When the Union Movement Was Murdered in America": Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Class War in Alfredo Véa's Gods Go Begging / Dennis López
Chapter 3. Quarantine Citizen: Latinx Poetry and the Matter of Capital / Michael Dowdy
Chapter 4. Historical Materialism, The Decolonial Imaginary, and Chicana Feminist Theories in the Flesh / Marcelle Maese
Chapter 5. A World Out of Whack: Criminal (In)justice and Financial Capitalism in Sergio de la Pava's A Naked Singularity / R. Andrés Guzmán
Chapter 6. Pornocapitalism and the Translucent Borders of Social Identity in Deck of Deeds / Carlos Gallego
Chapter 7. Bodega Sold Dreams: Middle-Class Panic and the Cross-over Aesthetics of In the Heights / Elena Machado Sáez
Chapter 8. The Dialectics of Presence and Futurity in the Contemporary U.S. Latino/a Novel / Mathias Nilges
Chapter 9. Crisis and Migration in Posthegemonic Times: Primitive Accumulation and Labor in La Bestia / Abraham Acosta
Chapter 10. A Chicana Dystopian Novel and the Economic Realities of Their Dogs Came with Them / Edén Torres
Chapter 11. Mass Incarceration and the Critique of Capitalism: A Working-Class Viewpoint in Ronald Ruiz's Happy Birthday Jesús / Marcial González
Bibliography
Contributors
Index