Latina/o literature and its criticism are no longer bound by the colonialist geography of the United States, which originally included the Mexican American Southwest, Puerto Rico, and the Hispanic Caribbean. Latina/o authors now come from an array of Latin American countries, and interpretive practices exceed the nationalist borders of the U.S./American literary studies, as critics place Latina/o literature in its proper hemispheric context. Temporal boundaries are expanded too, beyond national time. New interpretative practices trace the roots and references of Latina/o poetics back to the Spanish colonial period and to the pre-colonial period before that, as temporal borders must recede backward to include genres, themes, and regions that differ from English-dominant American literary history. Accordingly, we must expand beyond colonial languages like English and Spanish, to indigenous ones as well as proximal languages, if we hope to capture the capaciousness of Latina/o literature "from below" in the twenty-first century.