Etna Ávalos has published the book Habitar la diferencia: corporalidades disidentes en la literatura latino/americana de Estados Unidos. The book examines how Spanish-language literature produced by immigrant authors in the United States uses the body as a critical lens to interrogate difference. The volume brings together essays that explore how bodily experiences —disability, illness, racialization, gender, sexual dissidence, migration, political violence, and socioeconomic precarity— intersect with language to create a space of resistance and belonging. Organized in three parts, the book moves from memory and writing, through gender violence and corporeal disobedience, to the linguistic and cultural dimensions of literary circulation. The essays show how writing in Spanish in the United States constitutes both a political act and an affirmation of identity, placing embodied difference at the center of contemporary debates on migration.
