Mapping South American Latina/o Literature in the United States

Through her methodology of conducting individual interviews with each author, Heredia aims to move trans-American literary studies in a new direction by expanding this field's canon and placing the experiences of the twelve authors in dialogue with a larger Latin American literary tradition. Heredia has used the interview genre effectively in the past to explore the subjectivities of her interviewees in her book Latina Self-Portraits: Interviews with Contemporary Women Writers (2000), coedited with Bridget Kevane, and successfully deploys it again with this varied group of South American authors. Heredia has undoubtedly achieved her goals of moving forward South American Latina/o scholarship by conducting careful and insightful interviews of a wide range of authors on their generations, experiences, professions, countries of origin, and languages.