Chapter 1 Introduction

Chapter 3 Más que Cenizas : An Analysis of Juan Bosch’s Dissident Narration of Dominicanidad (Ausente)

Chapter 4 Creating Latinidad : Julia de Burgos’ Legacy on U.S. Latina Literature

Chapter 5 Travel and Family in Julia Alvarez’s Canon

Chapter 6 Making It Home: A New Ethics of Immigration in Dominican Literature

Chapter 7 Days of Awe and the Jewish Experience of a Cuban Exile: The Case of Achy Obejas

Chapter 8 A Community in Transit: The Performative Gestures of Manuel Ramos Otero’s Narrative Triptych

Chapter 9 A Revolution in Pink: Cuban Queer Literature Inside and Outside the Island

Chapter 10 Gender Pirates of the Caribbean: Queering Caribbeanness in the Novels of Zoé Valdés and Christopher John Farley

Chapter 11 Insular Interventions: Jesús Colón Unmasks Racial Harmonizing and Populist Uplift Discourses in Puerto Rico

Chapter 12 Coloniality of Diasporas: Racialization of Negropolitans and Nuyoricans in Paris and New York

Chapter 13 The Dominican Diaspora Strikes Back: Cultural Archive and Race in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao