Latinx literature unbound : undoing ethnic expectation Introduction: What we talk about when we talk about Latinx literature Brown like me the author function proper names and the rise of fictional nobodies Confounding the mimetic: the metafictional challenge to representation From where I stand: the intimacy and distance of we and you in the short story The lyric or a radical singularity in Latinx verse Conclusion: Thinking beyond limits. Latina o Literature Unbound asks if and how it helps to identify a corpus of literature as Latina o. It proposes that an ethnic marker may not be a salubrious way to understand this literature. It suggests genre as a more productive way to understand the literature we have heretofore labeled Latina o