Traces Latinx literature across deep time, from pre-conquest Indigenous oral traditions and colonial chronicles to 21st-century novels, comics, and performance art. Foregrounds the diversity within Latinx literary production across geographies, genres, gender identities, racialized experiences, and linguistic traditions. Examines how key terms--Latino, Latinx, Chicano/a, Boricua, Hispano, and others--carry complex histories and continue to evolve alongside shifting identities