Life Embodied: The Promise of Vital Force in Spanish Modernity by Nicolás Fernández-Medina (review)

America (2015), Luis Correa-Díaz and Scott Weintraub’s Poesía y Poéticas Digitales (2016), and Hilda Chacón’s Online Activism in Latin America (2018). All of these are useful additions to the various histories of DH. This new genealogy, however well-intended, manages to erase a host of vibrant work developed both before and after the 2015 symposium that jump-started this collection. These unfortunate omissions in the editors’ introduction and coda give the false impression that Latin American and Latinx DH are still unrealized, when it is that very work in which an engagement of DH with cultural issues of inequality, power differentials, hegemony, identity, infrastructure, and activism in the digital realm has taken place. Further, this is work that has been done from within the Digital Humanities as well as from within Latin American and Latinx Studies. Just in the US academy, the main perspective of the collection, projects such as the Bracero Archive, the Latin American Cartonera Publishers Database, Recovering the US Hispanic Literary Heritage, PR Mapathon, Separados/Torn Apart, Global Networks of Cultural Production in Latin America, Mapping Indigenous LA, and Borderlands Archives Cartography, to mention only a few, engage with and enact the questions asked by Fernández L’Hoeste and Rodríguez. These and many more projects are proof that the intersectionalities of the digital and the humanities sought by the editors are not just possible, but have already been put into practice, and have expanded the fields that inform them. When readers finish reading the articles in this collection, my advice is to also explore any or all of the projects mentioned above.