Research Catalog

Title

Hispanic Caribbean literature of migration : narratives of displacement / edited by Vanessa Pérez Rosario.

Publication

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

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Details

Additional Authors

Pérez Rosario, Vanessa.

Description

vi, 247 p. : ill.; 22 cm.

Summary

• "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.

Series Statement

New concepts in Latino American cultures

Uniform Title

New concepts in Latino American cultures.

Subjects

• National characteristics, Caribbean, in literature
• Caribbean Area > In literature
• Emigration and immigration in literature
• American literature > Caribbean American authors > History and criticism
• Displacement (Psychology) in literature
• American literature > Hispanic American authors > History and criticism

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

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

Call Number

JFD 10-3241

ISBN

• 9780230620650 (hardback)
• 0230620655 (hardback)

LCCN

2009049123

OCLC

YBP 2009049123

Title

Hispanic Caribbean literature of migration : narratives of displacement / edited by Vanessa Pérez Rosario.

Imprint

New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.

Edition

1st ed.

Series

New concepts in Latino American cultures

New concepts in Latino American cultures.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Pérez Rosario, Vanessa.

Research Call Number

JFD 10-3241