Hispanic Caribbean literature of migration
Subtitle: narratives of displacement
By: edited by Vanessa Pérez Rosario
Edition: 1st ed.
Series: New concepts in Latino American cultures; New concepts in Latino American cultures
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 247
ISBN-13: 9780230620650
Description: "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.

"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.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Machine generated contents note: PART I: MIGRATORY IDENTITIES * The Unbreakable Voice in a Minor Language: Following José Martí's Migratory Routes; title: Laura Lomas * Más que Cenizas: An Analysis of Juan Bosch's Dissident Narration of Dominicanidad (Ausente); title: Lorgia García Peña * Creating Latinidad: Julia de Burgos' Legacy in U.S. Latina Literature; title: Vanessa Pérez Rosario * PART II: DISLOCATED NARRATIVES * Travel and Family in Julia Alvarez's Canon; title: Vivian Nun Halloran * Making it Home: A New Ethics of Immigration in Junot Díaz's Drown; title: Ylce Irizarry * Days of Awe and the Jewish Experience of a Cuban Exile: The Case of Achy Obejas; title: Carolyn Wolfenzon-Niego * PART III: GENDER CROSSINGS * A Community in Transit: The Performative Gestures of Manuel Ramos Otero's Narrative Triptych; title: Monica Llado Ortega * A Revolution in Pink: Cuban Queer Literature Inside and Outside the Island; title: Ana Belén Martín Sevillano * Gender Pirates on the Caribbean Sea: Queering Gender, Race, and Diaspora in the Novels of Christopher John Farley and Zoe Valdés; title: Omise'eke Natasha Tinsley * PART IV: RACIAL MIGRATIONS * Insular Interventions: Jesús Colón Unmasks Racial Harmonizing and Populist Uplift Discourses in Puerto Rico; title: Maritza Stanchich * Coloniality of Diasporas: Racialization of Negropolitans and Nuyoricans in Paris and New York; title: Yolanda Martínez-San Miguel * The Dominican Diaspora Talks Back: Cultural Archive and Race in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wonderful Life of Oscar Wao; title: Juanita Heredia.