This History explores Latin American women's literature from ancient indigenous cultures to the beginning of the twenty-first century.

1. Reconstituting the archive: the indigenous ancient world Santa Arias; 2. Mulieres litterarum: oral, visual, and written narratives of indigenous elite women Rocío Quispe-Agnoli; 3. The establishment of feminine paradigms: translators, traitors, nuns Mónica Díaz; 4. Women 'cronistas' in colonial Latin America Valeria Añón; 5. Mulier docta and literary fame: the challenges of authorship in Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz Beatriz Colombi; 6. New genres, new explorations of womanhood: travel writers, journalists, and working women Mónica Szurmuk and Claudia Torre; 7. Nineteenth-century Brazilian women writers and nation-building: invisibilities, affiliations, resistances Rita Terezinha Schmidt; 8. Sense and sensibility: women's experience in the nineteenth century Francine Masiello; 9. The lyrical world in the nineteenth century Gwen Kirkpatrick; 10. 'The damned mob of scribbling women': gendered networks in fin-de-siècle Latin America Ana Peluffo; 11. Literature by women in the Spanish Antilles Catherine Davies; 12. Women writers in the revolution: regional socialist realism Maricruz Castro Ricalde; 13. Revolutionary insurgencies, paradigmatic cases Parvathi Kumaraswami; 14. The women of the avant-gardes Vicky Unruh; 15. Dissident cosmopolitanism Gabriel Giorgi and Germán Garrido; 16. Boom, realismo mágico ¿ boom and boomito María Rosa Olivera-Williams; 17. Poetry-fugue: Latin American women and the lyrical move Karen Benavente; 18. Mexican migrations, intercultural flows Debra A. Castillo; 19. Displaced selves: exile and migration in Latin American women's writing María Inés Lagos; 20. The view from here María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo; 21. Women writing in the Andes since colonial times Núria Villanova; 22. Rebellion, revision, and renewal: Anglophone and Francophone Caribbean women writers in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries Kanika Batra; 23. Central American women's literature Nicole Caso; 24. Writing violence Jean Franco; 25. New/old indigenous paradigms in Maya women's literary production Arturo Arias; 26. Genres of the real: testimonio, autobiography, the subjective turn Nora Strejilevich; 27. Performances, memory, monuments Michael J. Lazzara; 28. Mothers and children in biopolitical networks Nora Domínguez; 29. Market and non-consumer narratives: from the 'levity of being' to abjection Beatriz González and Carolyn Fornoff; 30. Per-verse Latin American women poets Laura M. Martins; 31. New forms of writing Marcy Schwartz; 32. Literature about feminicide in Ciudad Juárez Patricia Ravelo Blancas and Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba; 33. Afterword: figures, texts, and moments Mary Louise Pratt.