Buenas Noches American Culture : Latina O Aesthetics of Night Often treated like night itself both visible and invisible feared and romanticized Latina os make up the largest minority group in the US. In her newest work María DeGuzmán explores representations of night in art and literature from the Caribbean Colombia Central and South America and the US calling into question nights effect on the formation of identity for Latina os in and outside of the US. She takes as her subject novels short stories poetry essays non fiction photo fictions photography and film and examines these texts through the lenses of nationhood sexuality human rights exoticism among others. COVER TITLE COPYRIGHT CONTENTS PREFACE ACKNOWLEDGMENTS Introduction: Critically Inhabiting the Night 1. Dreaded Non Identities of Night: Night and Shadows in Chicana o Cultural Production 2. Queer Tropics of Night and the Caribe of American (Post) Modernism 3. Postcolonial Pre Columbian Cosmologies of Night in Contemporary U.S. Based Central American Texts 4. Transcultural Night Work of U.S. Based South American Cultural Producers Conclusion: Two Homelands Have I: America and the Night NOTES BIBLIOGRAPHY INDEX A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z.