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- ISBN 9781517921941
- Weight: 312g
- Dimensions: 140 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 2026
- Publisher: University of Minnesota Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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A transatlantic, more-than-human exploration of LatinX presence, memory, and empire in the heart of Madrid
How does LatinXness begin in the Kingdom of Spain? In The X Catalogue, Claudia Milian offers a vade mecum of Madrid, exploring it as an ecological archive and former imperial metropolis. Approaching the "X" as metaphor, method, and philosophical practice, she extends inquiry beyond the human. Milian traces the "X" through transplanted life from the Americas: the roots of the ahuehuete tree (the Montezuma cypress), the engineering and renaming of the acocoxochitl (the dahlia), the "invasion" of the cotorras argentinas (Monk parakeets), and the exhibition of the caimán (the alligator) as a conquered object.
Critical theory and historical cultural studies meet to remap the Atlantic world through the "Xs" of arrival, circulation, and transformation. By examining how LatinXness inhabits the Spanish capital, Milian breaks open LatinX Spain and global LatinX studies. The X Catalogue resists containment, mirroring its objects of study and challenging categories such as native, foreign, or authentic. It advances a more-than-human, transatlantic understanding of LatinXness within empire studies, environmental humanities, and the critical study of tourism.
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Claudia Milian is professor of romance studies at Duke University. She is author of LatinX, also published by the University of Minnesota Press, and Latining America: Black-Brown Passages and the Coloring of Latino/a Studies.
