1st Edition
Narratives of Migration and Displacement in Dominican Literature
Introduction: Emotional Creolization within Dominican Narratives of Immigration: The Affective Life of the Diasporic Subject 1. Culture and the City Experience(s): Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s Critical and Creative Encounters with the U.S. 2. Floating borders: Displaced Dominicans in Puerto Rican Memoirs and Narratives 3. A How-To Guide to Building a Boy: Dominican Diasporic Subjectivities in Junot Díaz’s Drown 4. Crooked City Women: A Reading of Gender, Race and Migration in Narratives of Two Dominican Women Writers Afterword
Biography
Danny Méndez earned his Ph.D. in Caribbean literatures from the University of Texas at Austin. His research focuses on contemporary narrative representations of Dominican migrations to the United States and Puerto Rico. His publications have appeared in Confluencia, Camino Real: Estudios de la Hispanidades Norteamericanas, Revista América Latin Hoy and Latin American Literary Review.
"For those who work and teach in the constantly changing field of diasporic Caribbean cultural studies, this excellent book from Danny Mendez is essential." – Iberoamericana, Pedro P. Porbén, Bowling Green State University
