Contributions by Carolina Alonso, Elena Avil's, Trevor Boffone,
Christi Cook, Ella Diaz, Amanda Ellis, Cristina Herrera, Guadalupe
Garcia McCall, Domino Renee Perez, Adrianna M. Santos, Roxanne
Schroeder-Arce, Lettycia Terrones, and Tim Wadham In Nerds, Goths,
Geeks, and Freaks: Outsiders in Chicanx and Latinx Young Adult
Literature, the outsider intersects with discussions of race,
ethnicity, gender, and sexuality. The essays in this volume address
questions of outsider identities and how these identities are
shaped by mainstream myths around Chicanx and Latinx young people,
particularly with the common stereotype of the struggling,
underachieving inner-city teens. Contributors also grapple with how
young adults reclaim what it means to be an outsider, weirdo, nerd,
or goth, and how the reclamation of these marginalized identities
expand conversations around authenticity and narrow understandings
of what constitutes cultural identity. Included are analysis of
such texts as I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter, Shadowshaper,
Swimming While Drowning, and others. Addressed in the essays are
themes of outsiders in Chicanx/Latinx children's and young adult
literature, and the contributors insist that to understand Latinx
youth identities it is necessary to shed light on outsiders within
an already marginalized ethnic group: nerds, goths, geeks, freaks,
and others who might not fit within such Latinx popular cultural
paradigms as the chola and cholo, identities that are ever-present
in films, television, and the internet.
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