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Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration

Narratives of Displacement

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  • © 2010

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Editors:
  1. Vanessa Pérez Rosario
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Part of the book series: New Directions in Latino American Cultures (NDLAC)

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Table of contents (13 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-vii
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  2. Introduction

    1. Introduction

      • Vanessa Pérez Rosario
      Pages 1-20

  4. Dislocated Narratives

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 73-73
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    2. Travel and Family in Julia Alvarez’s Canon

      • Vivian Nun Halloran
      Pages 75-88

    3. Making It Home: A New Ethics of Immigration in Dominican Literature

      • Ylce Irizarry
      Pages 89-103

    4. Days of Awe and the Jewish Experience of a Cuban Exile: The Case of Achy Obejas

      • Carolyn Wolfenzon
      Pages 105-118

  7. Back Matter

    Pages 223-247
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About this book

This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Díaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations.

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"Pérez 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

"Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement is an impressive accomplishment. The essays explore key moments in the history of Caribbean Latino literature and bring expert critical attention to trends over the past 150 years. Latino, meaning of Spanish speaking heritage in Anglo-America, is a word that points to contrapuntal doubling from the richly informative Introduction by Vanessa Pérez Rosario and throughout the dozen excellent essays. The collection foregrounds the work of both established and younger scholars in the field, all of whom tackle a major author and deepen our appreciation through rich contextualization and fine readings. No other book I know on Latino literature is as timely, broad, and welcome." - Doris Sommer, Ira and Jewell Williams Professor of Romance Languages and Literatures, and of African and African American Studies, Director of Cultural Agents, Harvard University

About the authors

VANESSA PÉREZ ROSARIO is Assistant Professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at The City University of New York - Brooklyn College, USA.

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