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Lyn Di Iorio Sandín is the author of Killing Spanish: Literary Essays on Ambivalent U.S. Latino/a Identity (Palgrave Macmillan 2004). She has recently finished her first novel called Outside the Bones, and her short fiction has been published in The Bilingual Review, The Hogtown Creek Review, and The Texas Review, among other venues. She is also the author of articles and translations. She is currently a specialist in Latino/a and Caribbean literatures at The City College of New York.
Richard Perez is working towards his Ph.D. in English and American literatures at the City University of New York Graduate Center. He is currently writing his dissertation on the Specter in Post-colonial and Trans-American literature. His work has appeared in Centro: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies. Perez also writes book reviews for Tempo, the Latino section of The New York Post. He teaches at Hunter College.
About the Contributors | p. ix |
Acknowledgments | p. xiii |
Introduction: New Waves in U.S. Latino/a Literary Criticism | p. 1 |
Desire for the Other | |
The Latino Scapegoat: Knowledge through Death in Short Stories by Joyce Carol Oates and Junot Diaz | p. 15 |
Alternative Visions and the Souvenir Collectible in Nelly Rosario's Song of the Water Saints | p. 35 |
Afro-Latino/a Poetics | |
Spirited Identities: Creole Religions, Creole/U.S. Latina Literature, and the Initiated Reader | p. 63 |
Racial Spills and Disfigured Faces in Piri Thomas's Down These Mean Streets and Junot Diaz's "Ysrael" | p. 93 |
Archives, Histories, and Genealogies | |
The Once and Future Latino: Notes Toward a Literary History Todavia Para Llegar | p. 115 |
Hurricanes, Magic, Science, and Politics in Cristina Garcia's The Aguero Sisters | p. 143 |
Latin Americans and Latinos: Terms of Engagement | p. 165 |
"Inheriting" Exile: Cuban-American Writers in the Diaspora | p. 183 |
Ideology and Labor | |
"So Your Social is Real?" Vernacular Theorists and Economic Transformation | p. 209 |
Oscar Hijuelos: Writer of Work | p. 227 |
Mass Production of the Heartland: Cuban American Lesbian Camp in Achy Obejas's "Wrecks" | p. 247 |
Index | p. 277 |
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