Alex Espinoza ist ein gefeierter queere Schriftsteller und Pädagoge, dessen Werke Themen wie Identität, Migration und kulturelles Erbe erforschen. Sein Debütroman "Still Water Saints" erhielt breite kritische Anerkennung und etablierte ihn als eine einzigartige Stimme in der zeitgenössischen Literatur. Sein zweiter Roman "The Five Acts of Diego León" wurde 2014 mit dem American Book Award der Before Columbus Foundation ausgezeichnet. Espinoza verfasste auch das Sachbuch "Cruising: An Intimate History of a Radical Pastime", das die LGBTQ+-Geschichte untersucht. Seine Kurzgeschichte "Detainment" wurde in der Anthologie Best American Mystery and Suspense Stories 2022 veröffentlicht und zeigt seine Vielseitigkeit in verschiedenen Genres.
Geboren in Tijuana, Mexiko, als Sohn purépecha-stämmiger Eltern aus Michoacán, wuchs Espinoza in Südkalifornien auf, was einen Großteil seines Schreibens an der Schnittstelle des mexikanisch-amerikanischen Lebens verankert. Seine Essays und Rezensionen erschienen in renommierten Publikationen wie dem New York Times Sunday Magazine, Los Angeles Times und NPR. Als Empfänger von Stipendien der National Endowment for the Arts, der Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference und MacDowell wird Espinozas Werk für seine lyrische Prosa und intimen Erzählungen gefeiert.
Derzeit bekleidet Espinoza die Tomás Rivera Endowed Chair-Professur für Kreatives Schreiben an der University of California, Riverside. Er lebt mit seinem Ehemann Kyle in Los Angeles. Sein bevorstehender Roman "The Sons of El Rey" erscheint im Juni 2024 bei Simon & Schuster und erweitert damit weiter sein literarisches Schaffen.
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Still Water Saints
2007
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The Five Acts of Diego Leon
2013
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The Sons of El Rey
2024
Sachbücher
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Cruising
2019
Latinidad: Transnational Cultures in the United States Books (by with T. Jackie Cuevas)
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Homecoming Queers: Desire and Difference in Chicana Latina Cultural Production (By: Marivel T. Danielson)
2009
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Day of the Dead in the USA: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon (By: Regina M. Marchi)
2009
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Day of the Dead in the USA, Second Edition: The Migration and Transformation of a Cultural Phenomenon (By: Regina M. Marchi)
2009
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Dance and the Hollywood Latina: Race, Sex, and Stardom (By: Priscilla Peña Ovalle)
2010
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The Making of Chicana/o Studies: In the Trenches of Academe (By: Rodolfo F. Acuña)
2011
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The Rise of Spanish-Language Filmmaking: Out from Hollywood's Shadow, 1929-1939 (By: Lisa Jarvinen)
2012
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Becoming Mexipino: Multiethnic Identities and Communities in San Diego (By: Rudy P. Guevarra Jr.)
2012
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Disenchanting Citizenship: Mexican Migrants and the Boundaries of Belonging (By: Luis F.B. Plascencia)
2012
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Zapotecs on the Move: Cultural, Social, and Political Processes in Transnational Perspective (By: Adriana Cruz-Manjarrez)
2013
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Domestic Negotiations: Gender, Nation, and Self-Fashioning in US Mexicana and Chicana Literature and Art (By: Marci R. McMahon)
2013
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Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging (By: Maya Socolovsky)
2013
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Hidden Chicano Cinema: Film Dramas in the Borderlands (By: A. Gabriel Meléndez)
2013
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Borderlands Saints: Secular Sanctity in Chicano/a and Mexican Culture (By: Desirée A. Martín)
2013
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Salvadoran Imaginaries: Mediated Identities and Cultures of Consumption (By: Cecilia M. Rivas)
2014
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Mexican Hometown Associations in Chicagoacán: From Local to Transnational Civic Engagement (By: Xóchitl Bada)
2014
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Dream Nation: Puerto Rican Culture and the Fictions of Independence (By: Maraia Acosta Cruz)
2014
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The Virgin of Guadalupe and the Conversos: Uncovering Hidden Influences from Spain to Mexico (By: Marie-Theresa Hernandez)
2014
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Family Activism: Immigrant Struggles and the Politics of Noncitizenship (By: Amalia Pallares)
2014
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Mexico on Main Street: Transnational Film Culture in Los Angeles before World War II (By: Colin Gunckel)
2015
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Of Forests and Fields: Mexican Labor in the Pacific Northwest (By: Mario Jimenez Sifuentez)
2016
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Southwest Asia: The Transpacific Geographies of Chicana/o Literature (By: Jayson Gonzales Sae-Saue)
2016
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From the Edge: Chicana/o Border Literature and the Politics of Print (By: Allison E. Fagan)
2016
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In Search of the Mexican Beverly Hills: Latino Suburbanization in Postwar Los Angeles (By: Jerry Gonzalez)
2017
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LatinAsian Cartographies: History, Writing, and the National Imaginary (By: Susan Thananopavarn)
2018
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Post-Borderlandia: Chicana Literature and Gender Variant Critique (By: T. Jackie Cuevas)
2018
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Constituting Central American–Americans: Transnational Identities and the Politics of Dislocation (By: Maritza E. Cárdenas)
2018
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Forging Arizona: A History of the Peralta Land Grant and Racial Identity in the West (By: Anita Huizar-Hernandez)
2019
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Parcels: Memories of Salvadoran Migration (By: Mike Anastario)
2019
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Becoming Transnational Youth Workers: Independent Mexican Teenage Migrants and Pathways of Survival and Social Mobility (By: Isabel Martínez)
2019
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East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte
2020
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Deportes: The Making of a Sporting Mexican Diaspora (By: José M Alamillo)
2020
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Precarity and Belonging: Labor, Migration, and Noncitizenship (By: Juan Poblete, Catherine S. Ramírez, Sylvanna M. Falcon, Steven C. McKay, Felicity Amaya Schaeffer)
2021
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Latinas on the Line: Invisible Information Workers in Telecommunications (By: Melissa Villa-Nicholas)
2022
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Embodied Economies: Diaspora and Transcultural Capital in Latinx Caribbean Fiction and Theater (By: Israel Reyes)
2022
Akashic Noir Books
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San Francisco Noir
2002
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Seattle Noir
2003
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Bronx Noir
2003
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Brooklyn Noir
2004
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Brooklyn Noir 2
2005
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Chicago Noir
2005
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Dublin Noir
2005
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Manhattan Noir
2006
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Miami Noir
2006
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D.C. Noir
2006
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Dublin Noir: The Celtic Tiger vs. the Ugly American