Photographic ekphrasis in Cuban American fiction : missing pictures and imagining loss and nostalgia Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban American Fiction offers new readings of Cuban American novels and autobiographies demonstrating that a focus on photographs (alluded to analyzed and or obsessively recurrent in the narrative discourse) provides fresh insights into these texts. The study introduces the concept of photographic ekphrasis as a reading tool for diasporic literature and argues that visual images are important components of narratives about dislocation nostalgia and transcultural experience. Authors treated in depth include Carlos Eire Cristina Garcia Oscar Hijuelos Roberto G. Fernandez Ana Menendez Achy Obejas and Gustavo Perez Firmat. Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban American Fiction offers an original perspective on Cuban American literature and contributes to the scholarship on ekphrasis and on the interactions between photography and narrative Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban American Fiction offers new readings of Cuban American novels and autobiographies demonstrating that a focus on photographs (alluded to analyzed and or obsessively recurrent in the narrative discourse) provides fresh insights into these texts. The study introduces the concept of photographic ekphrasis as a reading tool for diasporic literature and argues that visual images are important components of narratives about dislocation nostalgia and transcultural experience. Authors treated in depth include Carlos Eire Cristina García Oscar Hijuelos Roberto G. Fernández Ana Menéndez Achy Obejas and Gustavo Pérez Firmat. Photographic Ekphrasis in Cuban American Fiction offers an original perspective on Cuban American literature and contributes to the scholarship on ekphrasis and on the interactions between photography and narrative