Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement

by Kenneth A. Loparo (Editor)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781137008077
Publisher:	Palgrave Macmillan US
Publication date:	07/30/2012
Series:	New Directions in Latino American Cultures
Edition description:	2010
Pages:	247
Product dimensions:	5.30(w) x 8.40(h) x 0.70(d)

About the Author

Vanessa Pérez Rosario is an Assistant Professor of Puerto Rican and Latino Studies at The City University of New York - Brooklyn College.

Table of Contents

PART I: MIGRATORY IDENTITIES The Unbreakable Voice in a Minor Language: Following José Martí's Migratory Routes; L.Lomas Más que Cenizas : An Analysis of Juan Bosch's Dissident Narration of Dominicanidad (Ausente); L.García Peña Creating Latinidad : Julia de Burgos' Legacy in U.S. Latina Literature; V.Pérez 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 Díaz'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 Valdés; O.N.Tinsley PART IV: RACIAL MIGRATIONS Insular Interventions: Jesús Colón 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.Martínez-San Miguel The Dominican Diaspora Talks Back: Cultural Archive and Race in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao ; J.Heredia

Editorial Reviews

"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

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