Imagined Transnationalism: U.S. Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity

Front Matter....Pages i-v
Introduction....Pages 1-12
Chicano Transnation....Pages 13-28
A Schematic Approach to Understanding Latino Transnational Literary Texts....Pages 29-45
Para Español Oprima El Número Dos: Transnational Translation and U.S. Latino/a Literature....Pages 47-60
Transnational Migrations and Political Mobilizations: The Case of A Day without a Mexican....Pages 61-73
Imagining Transnational Chicano/a Activism against Gender-Based Violence at the U.S.-Mexican Border....Pages 75-93
Precursors of Hemispheric Writing: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Early U.S. American Identity....Pages 95-115
Slammin’ in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe....Pages 117-136
“A Broader and Wiser Revolution”: Refiguring Chicano Nationalist Politics in Latin American Consciousness in Post-Movement Literature....Pages 137-155
With Bertolt Brecht and the Aztecs Toward an Imagined Transnation: A Literary Case Study....Pages 157-170
Travel, Autoethnography, and Oppositional Consciousness in Juan Felipe Herrera’s Mayan Drifter....Pages 171-199
¿Dónde estás vos/z?: Performing Salvadoreñidades in Washington, DC....Pages 201-220
The Final Frontier: Guillermo Gómez-Peña’s The Great Mojado Invasion....Pages 221-235
Writing the Haitian Diaspora: The Transnational Contexts of Edwidge Danticat’s The Dew Breaker....Pages 237-256
Back Matter....Pages 257-266