introduction to volume of 140 pages with the special topic devoted to Latino/a studies and related to the corrido as a literary genre in Eduardo Viaña's novel El Corrido de Dante, to the ideological coordinates describing illegal immigration, to Mexican immigration in the U.S. South, to Cuba, the relationship between the U.S. and Cuba, and to transnational space, and also to kinship in Native American writing, as well as U.S. literary history