Imagined Transnationalism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-v

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2. Introduction

   • Kevin Concannon, Francisco A. Lomelí, Marc Priewe

   Pages 1-12

3. Chicano Transnation

   • Bill Ashcroft

   Pages 13-28

4. A Schematic Approach to Understanding Latino Transnational Literary Texts

   • Nicolás Kanellos

   Pages 29-45

5. Para Español Oprima El Número Dos: Transnational Translation and U.S. Latino/a Literature

   • Marta E. Sánchez

   Pages 47-60

6. Transnational Migrations and Political Mobilizations: The Case of A Day without a Mexican

   • María Herrera-Sobek

   Pages 61-73

7. Imagining Transnational Chicano/a Activism against Gender-Based Violence at the U.S.-Mexican Border

   • Claudia Sadowski-Smith

   Pages 75-93

8. Precursors of Hemispheric Writing: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Early U.S. American Identity

   • Gabriele Pisarz-Ramírez

   Pages 95-115

9. Slammin’ in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe

   • Harald Zapf

   Pages 117-136

10. “A Broader and Wiser Revolution”: Refiguring Chicano Nationalist Politics in Latin American Consciousness in Post-Movement Literature

    • Tim Libretti

    Pages 137-155

11. With Bertolt Brecht and the Aztecs Toward an Imagined Transnation: A Literary Case Study

    • Karin Ikas

    Pages 157-170

12. Travel, Autoethnography, and Oppositional Consciousness in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Mayan Drifter

    • María Antònia Oliver-Rotger

    Pages 171-199

13. ¿Dónde estás vos/z?: Performing Salvadoreñidades in Washington, DC

    • Ana Patricia Rodríguez

    Pages 201-220

14. The Final Frontier: Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s The Great Mojado Invasion

    • Catherine Leen

    Pages 221-235

15. Writing the Haitian Diaspora: The Transnational Contexts of Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker

    • Ricardo L. Ortíz

    Pages 237-256

16. Back Matter

    Pages 257-266

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With its focus on Latina/o communities in the United States, this collection of essays identifies and investigates the salient narrative and aesthetic strategies with which an individual or a collective represents transnational experiences and identities in literary and cultural texts.

• culture
• gender
• identity
• migration
• nationalism
• revolution
• violence
• latin american politics

"This book comes at a crucial time of expansion of college and university interdisciplinary programs . . .The essays focus on a variety of important and current social, cultural, and artistic issues concerning the U.S. and Latin American countries. Nationalism, transnationalism, language, hybridity, transcultural identities, and globalization, to name a few, are principal themes in the essays. The project s uniqueness is that it deals specifically with Chicano/U.S.-Latino cultures and artistic manifestations. It also brings together many outstanding established scholars and the three editors are exceptional scholars in their own right. They have selected top researchers who have already produced excellent publications. This book is a timely and very useful collection of exceptional articles that complement one another." - Alejandro Morales, Professor, Department of Chicano/Latino Studies, University of California, Irvine

KEVIN CONCANNON is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Wisconsin, Platteville, USA.   FRANCISCO LOMELÍ is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, and Chair of Chicano Studies at UC Santa Barbara, California, USA.    MARC PRIEWE is Professor of American Studies at the University of Potsdam, Germany.

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