New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
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Part of the series New concepts in Latino American cultures;New concepts in Latino American cultures.
Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Introduction: Historical context of Caribbean Latino literature / Vaness Pérez Rosario — The unbreakable voice in a minor language: following José Martí’s migratory routes / Laura Lomas — Más que cenizas: an analysis of Juan Bosch’s dissident narration of Dominicanidad (Ausente) / Lorgia García Peña — Creating Latinidad: Julia de Burgos’ legacy in U.S. Latina literature / Vanessa Pérez Rosario — Travel and family in Julia Alvarez’s canon / Vivian Nun Halloran — Making it home: a new ethics of immigration in Dominican literature / Ylce Irizarry — Days of awe and the Jewish experience of a Cuban exile: the case of Achy Obejas / Carolyn Wolfenzon — A community in transit: the performative gestures of Manuel Ramos Otero’s narrative Triptych / Mónica Lladó-Ortega — A revolution in pink: Cuban Queer literature inside and outside the island / Ana Belén Martín Sevillano — Gender pirates on the Caribbean Sea: Queering gender, race, and diaspora in the novels of Zoé Valdés and Christopher John Farley / Omise’eke Natasha Tinsley — Insular interventions: Jesús Colón unmasks racial harmonizing and populist uplift discourses in Puerto Rico / Maritza Stanchich — Coloniality of diasporas: racialization of Negropolitans and Nuyoricans in Paris and New York / Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel — The Dominican Diaspora talks back: cultural archive and race in Junot Díaz’s The brief wonderful life of Oscar Wao / Juanita Heredia.
Subjects:
- American literature — Hispanic American authors — History and criticism.
- American literature — Caribbean American authors — History and criticism.
- Emigration and immigration in literature.
- Displacement (Psychology) in literature.
- Caribbean Area — In literature.
- National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature.
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