Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration (eBook)

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

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