Hispanic Caribbean Literature of Migration: Narratives of Displacement

By Vanessa Pérez Rosario

Book Overview

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 United States beginning with Jos Mart and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize winning novelist Junot D az. The essays in this collection reveal the multiple ways that writers of this tradition use their unique positioning as both insiders and outsiders 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, sexual, racial, identity, linguistic, and national migrations.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1137008075
• ISBN13: 9781137008077
• Release Date: July 2012
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 247 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.1" x 5.4" x 8.4"