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Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor

Bill Johnson González
p. 1
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0000
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From the Guest Thematic Editors: Latinx Detective and Noir Narratives

Michael Cucher, William Arce, José Navarro
pp. 3-16
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0001
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The Utopian Function of Queer Chicano Chutzpah: Imagining a Future Beyond HIV/AIDS in Michael Nava's Henry Rios Novels

Michael Cucher
pp. 17-34
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0002
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Border Desires: Mapping Queer Worlds in the Work of Benjamin Alire Saénz

Ruben Zecena
pp. 35-46
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0003
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The Chicana Detective: Reimagining Archetypes and Chicana Histories in the Historical Mystery

Crystal R. Pérez
pp. 47-61
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0004
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A Browner Shade of Noir: Luis Valdez's Zoot Suit as Decolonial Noir

José Navarro
pp. 63-79
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0005
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Latinx Noir: Reading The Tattooed Soldier as a Los Angeles Crime Story

Annemarie Pérez
pp. 81-96
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0006
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Murder in Military Fatigues: Interrogating Military Masculinity in Lucha Corpi's Detective Novel Eulogy for a Brown Angel

William Arce
pp. 97-111
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0007
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"All This Shit Was Also the Border": Mediation and Generic Borders in Paco Ignacio Taibo II's Detective Fiction

Sean Cobb
pp. 113-126
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0008
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How Do Detectives Survive Their Novels? Positionality, Survival, and Literary Universes in Chicana/o Detective Fiction and Mexican Narcoliterature

Antonio Paniagua Guzmán
pp. 127-139
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0009
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Interview with Marcos McPeek Villatoro, Author of the Romilia Chacón Detective Series

William Arce
pp. 141-147
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0010
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The Art of Detection: An Interview with Carmen Amato, Author of the Award-Winning Emilia Cruz Mystery Series

Shanell Contreras
pp. 149-152
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0011
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A Conversation with Aya de León, Author of the Justice Hustler Series

Michael Cucher
pp. 153-159
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0012
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About the Artist: Salomón Huerta

p. 161
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0013
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About the Artist: Red and Brown Fresno

David Bacon
pp. 163-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0014
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This Is Not How You Spell Serenity (excerpt from the new Ivon Villa mystery)

Alicia Gaspar de Alba
pp. 167-176
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0015
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Unforgetting: A Memoir of Family, Migration, Gangs, and Revolution in the Americas by Roberto Lovato (review)

Sarah Bey West
pp. 177-178
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0016
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Ricanness: Enduring Time in Anticolonial Performance by Sandra Ruiz (review)

Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
pp. 179-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0017
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Latinx Environmentalisms: Place, Justice, and the Decolonial ed. by Sarah D. Wald et al. (review)

Grisel Y. Acosta
pp. 181-182
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0018
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The INS on the Line: Making Immigration Law on the US-Mexico Border, 1917–1954 by S. Deborah Kang (review)

John Bradley
pp. 183-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/dlg.2022.0019
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