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A Magical Reformation: Veronica Chapa’s Feminist Retelling of La Malinche in Malinalli: A Novel
Chapa reimagines La Malinche through a fantastical lens, centering themes of language, loyalty, and vengeance.
Apr 13 min read
Monsters Among Us: Vampires and Colonial Violence in Isabel Cañas’ Vampires of El Norte
Vampires of El Norte is a powerful contribution to Latino-centered storytelling that reclaims horror as a space to explore memory, resistance, and survival.
Apr 12 min read
Another Side of History: Review of David Dorado Romo’s Borderlands and the Mexican American Story
Another Side of History breaks down the hegemonic door that has tried to shut out complexities of Mexican American and borderland history.
Mar 123 min read
Mestizo Power, Identity, & CW's The Originals
The Originals: a lens through which we can explore the lasting impacts of colonial legacies and complexitities of mestizo subjectivities.
Dec 11, 20245 min read
Death, Bats, & Deities: Rose Padilla Reviews The Return of Camazotz #1
The Return of Camazotz is stunning, unsettling, and—like the Mayan bat god of death that haunts the protagonists—impossible to put down.
Jul 29, 20243 min read
Get Those Line Drivers Out: A Review of Julio Quintana’s The Long Game
Ralph Villenueva Reviews of Julio Quintana's film The Long Game
Jul 18, 20244 min read
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