The African heritage of Latinx and Caribbean literature Fear: Junot Díazs zombies and les contorsions extraordinaires in Monstro Commodification: Badagry and the African safari of Achy Obejass Ruins Obliteration: Gabriel García Márquez and his Angolan chronicles of a Latin African death foretold Archival distortion: the Chicano Congo Relación of Tomás Rivera and Rudolfo Anaya. The African Heritage of Latinx and Caribbean Literature unearths a buried African archive within widely read Latinx writers of the last fifty years. It challenges dominant narratives in World Literature and transatlantic studies that ignore Africas impact in broader Latin American culture. Sarah Quesada argues that these canonical works evoke textual memorials of African memory. She shows how the African Atlantic haunts modern Latinx and Carribbean writing and examines the disavowal or distortion of the African subject in the constructions of national racial sexual and spiritual Latinx identity. Queseda shows how themes such as the 19th century scramble for Africa the decolonizing wars Black internationalism and the neoliberal turn are embedded in key narratives. Drawing from multilingual archives about West and Central Africa she examines how the legacies of colonial French Iberian British and U.S. Imperialisms have impacted on the relationships between African and Latinx identities. This is the first book length project to address the African colonial and imperial inheritance of Latinx literature