Southwest Humanities continues to provide superior indexes for scholarly monographs and collections, particularly those dealing with cutting-edge work in Latin American literary studies. The latest among these is Christina A. León’s Matters of Inscription: Reading Figures of Latinidad, which will be published next month by NYU Press. In this highly original and meticulously researched work, León (Literature at Duke University) focuses on visual artists and writers from Cuba, Puerto Rico, and Latinx New York and their relations to inscription in an exploration of “queer inscriptions of Latinidad.” Featuring studies of Zilia Sánchez, Ana Mendieta, Manuel Ramos Otero, María Irene Fornés, Justin Torres, and Roque Salas Rivera, Matters of Inscription “engages in rhetorical analysis that reassesses how the terms of Latinx studies have been challenged and how they are failing. Rather than categorizing texts based on predetermined taxonomic terms or individual subjects’ lives, the book tracks figures situated at the edges of materiality and semiosis. This approach addresses the continuous marginalization and dispossession that shape the phenomenon of Latinx identity…by recentering conceptual questions of origin, diaspora, pedagogy, and belonging.” For more information about this important new work (including a free preview of the introduction), please see the publisher’s website here.