Postcolonial Archipelagos : essays on Hispanic Caribbean and Lusophone African fiction Postcolonial Archipelagos crosses geographic and linguistic boundaries by focusing on writers from two different postcolonial regions: the Hispanic Caribbean (Junot Díaz Eduardo Lalo Marta Aponte James Stevens Arce and Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá) and Lusophone Africa (Mia Couto José Luis Mendonça and Guilherme Mendes da Silva).