Offers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the
United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that
has captured both critical and popular interest.
In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most
salient and representative narrative and poetic works of the newest
literary movement to emerge in Spanish American and U.S.
literatures. The book is divided into three sections, each focused
on representative Puerto Rican American, Cuban American, and
Dominican American authors. Luis traces the writers' origins and
influences from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing
especially on the contemporary works of Oscar Hijuelos, Julia
Alvarez, Cristina Garcia, and Piri Thomas, among others. While
engaging in close readings of the texts, Luis places them in a
broader social, historical, political, and racial perspective to
expose the tension between text and context.
As a group, Latino Caribbeans write an ethnic literature in
English that is born of their struggle to forge an identity
separate from both the influences of their parents' culture and
those of the United States. For these writers, their parents'
country of origin is a distant memory. They have developed a
culture of resistance and a language that mediates between their
parents' identity and the culture that they themselves live in.
Latino Caribbeans are engaged in a metaphorical dance with Anglo
Americans as the dominant culture. Just as that dance represents a
coming together of separate influences to make a unique art form,
so do both Hispanic and North American cultures combine to bring a
new literature into being. This new body of literature helps us to
understand not only the adjustments Latino Caribbean cultures have
had to make within the larger U.S. environment but also how the
dominant culture has been affected by their presence.
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