{"id":3754,"date":"2025-10-06T15:19:48","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:19:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/?p=3754"},"modified":"2025-10-06T15:20:58","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T19:20:58","slug":"entre-mundos-between-worlds-latinx-diasporas-in-canada-and-beyond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.library.mcgill.ca\/hsslibrary\/entre-mundos-between-worlds-latinx-diasporas-in-canada-and-beyond\/","title":{"rendered":"Entre mundos \/ Between Worlds: Latinx Diasporas in Canada and Beyond"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

In honour of Latin American and Hispanic Heritage month, our October book display invites you to explore the vibrant, complex, and deeply personal stories of Latinx diasporas in Canada and beyond. Entre mundos \/ Between Worlds<\/em><\/strong> brings together fiction, memoir, poetry, and scholarship that reflect the lived experiences of Latin American communities navigating migration, memory, and identity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

These books trace journeys across geographic, cultural, and emotional borders. They speak of homes left behind and new ones imagined, of identities shaped in motion, and of creativity born from displacement. Whether through the lens of revolutionary memoirs, diasporic art, digital storytelling, or speculative fiction, each work offers a unique perspective on what it means to live \u201centre mundos.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n

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Something Fierce: Memoirs of a Revolutionary Daughter<\/em><\/strong> follows six-year-old Carmen Aguirre as she flees Chile for Canada with her family after Pinochet\u2019s 1973 coup. Five years later, Carmen returns to South America with her mother and stepfather\u2014members of the Chilean resistance\u2014and begins living a double life alongside her sister. By 18, she becomes a militant herself, navigating a world of secrecy, danger, and defiant hope.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Latinocanad\u00e1<\/em><\/strong> highlights the literary contributions of Hispanic writers who have settled in Canada over the past thirty years, offering newly translated selections of their work. Latin America Made in Canada<\/em><\/strong> delves into questions of cultural production and identity within the Canadian landscape. Meanwhile, books like Rock the Nation<\/em><\/strong> and LatiNext<\/strong> <\/em>explore Latinx artistic expression\u2014through music and poetry respectively\u2014revealing how creativity flourishes across diasporic communities.<\/p>\n\n\n

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Young, Well-Educated, and Adaptable<\/strong>, along with the French-language titles Marche ou cr\u00e8ve : voix migrantes de l\u2019Am\u00e9rique latine<\/strong><\/em> and Rencontres : \u00e9crivains et artistes de l\u2019Argentine et du Qu\u00e9bec<\/strong><\/em>, document the diverse experiences of Latin American immigrants in Quebec. Historias de Montreal<\/em> <\/strong>offers a similar perspective through fictional narratives, capturing the imagined and lived realities of diasporic life.<\/p>\n\n\n

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The display also features popular writers such as Silvia Moreno-Garc\u00eda<\/em><\/strong>, a Mexican-Canadian author whose novels\u2014Silver Nitrate<\/em><\/strong>, Mexican Gothic<\/em><\/strong>, and Velvet Was the Night<\/em><\/strong>\u2014blend history, horror, and noir with Latinx sensibilities. Also included is Montreal-based Chilean author Nicholas Dawson<\/em><\/strong>, represented by works like Partir de loin<\/em><\/strong>, D\u00e9sormais, ma demeure<\/em><\/strong>, Se faire \u00e9clat\u00e9.e : exp\u00e9riences marginales et \u00e9critures de soi<\/em><\/strong>, and House within a house<\/em><\/strong>, which explore themes of marginality, identity, and self-expression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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