Acknowledgments Introduction: Collecting Our Bones Shantel Martinez and Kelly Medina-López Part I. Ghosts in the Real: Historiography in Our Stories that Becomes Research Chapter 1. La Llorona: A LatIndingenous Specter of Trauma, Motherhood, and Contemporary Racial Violence Sarah De Los Santos Upton and Leandra Hinojosa Hernández Chapter 2. Legacies of Land, Cultural Clashes, and Spiritual Stirrings: A Testimonio of New Mexican Ghost Stories Amanda R. Martinez Chapter 3. Dueling Border-Ghosts: Exploring the Equator as a Space of Spirituality and Resistance Diana Isabel Martínez Chapter 4. Closing the Circle Eric Murillo Chapter 5. Ciguanabas, Refugees, and Other Hauntings: Three Salvadoran Women?s Epistemic Hauntings as Resistance against Heteropatriarchy Brenda Selena Lara Chapter 6.
?Entre la Santa y la Muerte?: Liminality and Empowerment in Mexico?s Santa Muerte Luisa Fernanda Grijalva-Maza Chapter 7. La CoyotaPerejundia Moises Gonzales Chapter 8. Iconografía Prohibida/Forbidden Iconography Lizzeth Tecuatl Cuaxiloa Chapter 9. Making a Living Saul Ramirez Part II. Hazme Caso: Memoir, Poetry, and Stories Chapter 10. Curse of the Zamora Girls: Unveiling Familial Ghost Stories for Survival Bianca Tonantzin Zamora Chapter 11. And He Whispered, ?Yolanda, Yolanda? Spencer R. Herrera Chapter 12.
Mi Abuelita y Los Rosarios Arturo ?Velaz? Muñoz Chapter 13. Los Aullidos de las Madres Sarah Amira de la Garza Chapter 14. my baby wanted an el camino, that?s real Diego Medina Chapter 15. Cry Baby Kathleen Alcalá Chapter 16. Becoming Indigenous Again: Returning Home and Making the Ghosts Visible Juan Pacheco Marcial Chapter 17. cortando las nubes,or, death came on horses ire?ne lara silva Chapter 18. Thru the Veil and 32.2480° N, 112.
9161° W (Sonoran Desert) Roxanna Ivonne Sanchez-Avila Part III. Bringing the Borderlands Home: Public Discourses and Theories of the Flesh Chapter 19. Hauntology of the Oppressed: The MeXicana Gothic and Spectral Geographies in Sandra Cisneros?s ?Woman Hollering Creek? Cathryn J. Merla-Watson Chapter 20. Haunted by Settler Nostalgia: (Lat)Indigenous Specters, White Vampires, and the Historical Amnesia of Twilight Susana Loza About the Contributors Index.