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 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 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.