In this broadly conceived exploration of how people represent identity in the Americas,
Suzanne Bost argues that mixture has been central to the definition of race in the United …

The sheer diversity of the Asian American populace makes them an ambiguous racial
category. Indeed, the 2010 US Census lists twenty-four Asian-ethnic groups, lumping …

Cuban music is recognized unanimously as a major historical force behind Latin American
popular music, and as an important player in the development of US popular music and jazz …

This Companion provides a critical overview of US Latino/a literature–key ideas, figures,
terms, and debates–as well as engaging new topics for consideration and drawing attention …

In this one-of-a-kind volume, Iraida López explores various narratives of return by those who
left Cuba as children or adolescents. Including memoirs, semi-autobiographical fiction, and …

Philip Holden reveals deeply gendered connections between the writing of individual lives
and of the narratives of nations emerging from colonialism. Autobiography and …

On the morning of December 22, 1903, two men were having a heated argument in the bar
of the Restaurante Lorenzana in Tampa, Florida. The dispute reached such proportions that …

In Voice-Overs, an impressive collection of writers, translators, and critics of Latin American
literature address the challenges and triumphs of translation in the publishing industry, in …

Magical Realism and Cosmopolitanism details a variety of functionalities of the mode of
magical realism, focusing on its capacity to construct sociological representations of …

In this far-reaching literary history, John Wharton Lowe remakes the map of American culture
by revealing the deep, persistent connections between the ideas and works produced by …