Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement (New Directions in Latino American Cultures)

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. Front Matter....Pages i-vii Introduction....Pages 1-20 Front Matter....Pages 21-21 The Unbreakable Voice in a Minor Language: Following José Martí’s Migratory Routes....Pages 23-38 Más que Cenizas: An Analysis of Juan Bosch’s Dissident Narration of Dominicanidad (Ausente)....Pages 39-55 Creating Latinidad: Julia de Burgos’ Legacy on U.S. Latina Literature....Pages 57-71 Front Matter....Pages 73-73 Travel and Family in Julia Alvarez’s Canon....Pages 75-88 Making It Home: A New Ethics of Immigration in Dominican Literature....Pages 89-103 Days of Awe and the Jewish Experience of a Cuban Exile: The Case of Achy Obejas....Pages 105-118 Front Matter....Pages 119-119 A Community in Transit: The Performative Gestures of Manuel Ramos Otero’s Narrative Triptych....Pages 121-136 A Revolution in Pink: Cuban Queer Literature Inside and Outside the Island....Pages 137-152 Gender Pirates of the Caribbean: Queering Caribbeanness in the Novels of Zoé Valdés and Christopher John Farley....Pages 153-168 Front Matter....Pages 169-169 Insular Interventions: Jesús Colón Unmasks Racial Harmonizing and Populist Uplift Discourses in Puerto Rico....Pages 171-187 Coloniality of Diasporas: Racialization of Negropolitans and Nuyoricans in Paris and New York....Pages 189-206 The Dominican Diaspora Strikes Back: Cultural Archive and Race in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao....Pages 207-221 Back Matter....Pages 223-247 "Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement is a collection of thirteen chapters that 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 essays in this collection reveal the multiple ways that writers of this tradition use their unique positioning as both insiders and outsides to critique U.S. hegemonic discourses while simultaneously interrogating national discourses in their home countries. The chapters consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic and national migrations"--Provided by publisher "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"--Provided by publisher This collection explores the literary tradition of Caribbean Latino literature written in the U.S. beginning with Jose Marti and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist, Junot Diaz. The contributors consider the way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations