Includes bibliographical references (p. [155]-159) and index.
Contents
Toward a typology of U.S. Latino/a literature -- When Papi killed Mami: allegory's magical fragments in Cristina Garcia's The Aguero sisters -- Killing "spanish": Rosario Ferre's evolution from autora puertorriqueña to U.S. Latina writer -- "That animals might speak": doubles and the uncanny in Loida Maritza Perez's Geographies of home -- Latino rage: the life and work of Edward Rivera -- Melancholic allegorists of the street: Piri Thomas, Junot Diaz, and Yxta Maya Murray.
