Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration Narratives of Displacement [Hardcover]

This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with Jos? Mart? and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot D?az. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations.PART I: MIGRATORY IDENTITIES The Unbreakable Voice in a Minor Language: Following Jos? Mart?'s Migratory Routes; L.Lomas M?s que Cenizas : An Analysis of Juan Bosch's Dissident Narration of Dominicanidad (Ausente); L.Garc?a Pe?a Creating Latinidad : Julia de Burgos' Legacy in U.S. Latina Literature; V.P?rez Rosario PART II: DISLOCATED NARRATIVES Travel and Family in Julia Alvarez's Canon; V.Nun Halloran Making it Home: A New Ethics of Immigration in Junot D?az's Drown; Y.Irizarry Days of Awe and the Jewish Experience of a Cuban Exile: The Case of Achy Obejas; C.Wolfenzon-Niego PART III: GENDER CROSSINGS A Community in Transit: The Performative Gestures of Manuel Ramos Otero's Narrative Triptych; M.Llado Ortega A Revolution in Pink: Cuban Queer Literature Inside and Outside the Island; A.B.M.Sevillano Gender Pirates on the Caribbean Sea: Queering Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Novels of Christopher John Farley and Zoe Vald?s; O.N.Tinsley PART IV: RACIAL MIGRATIONS Insular Interventions: Jes?s Col?n Unmasks Racial Harmonizing and Populist Uplift Discourses in Puerto Rico; M.Stanchich Coloniality of Diasporas: Racialization of Negropolitans and Nuyoricans in Paris and New York; Y.Mart?nez-San Miguel The Dominican Diaspora Talks Back: Cultural Archive and Race in Junot D?az's The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao ; J.Heredia

P?rez Rosario offers an extremely valuable collection of essays about the experience of migration in Hispanic Caribbean literature. Summing Up: Highly Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates through faculty. - Choice

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