The Selena Reader

Remembering the Queen of Tejano

Larissa M. Mercado-López, Yndalecio Isaac Hinojosa (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

240 Seiten

2026
University of Texas Press (Verlag)
978-1-4773-3349-5 (ISBN)

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A literary collection honoring and memorializing Selena, the Queen of Tejano

List of Illustrations
Remembering Selena: Letter to Our Readers
(Larissa M. Mercado-LÓpez 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 CantÚ)
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. HernÁndez)
Chapter 3. Call it fodder. Call it flame. I call it cariÑo. (Joe JimÉnez)
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-GonzÁlez)
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 CantÚ)

Part III. Dreaming of You: Selena Stories and Pedagogies

Chapter 9. A Selena Story: Teaching and Learning About La Reina de la MÚsica 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 CristÓbal Salinas Jr.)
’Till Tomorrow (Rossy Evelin Lima)

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Index

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.3.2026
Zusatzinfo	18 b&w illus., 12 color illus., 8-page color section, 1 table
Verlagsort	Austin, TX
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	454 g
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik
ISBN-10	1-4773-3349-5 / 1477333495
ISBN-13	978-1-4773-3349-5 / 9781477333495
Zustand	Neuware