Includes bibliographical references (p. 315-335) and index.
Contents
Setting new roots : Latino Caribbean literature in the United States -- Puerto Rican American poetry : street rhythms and voices of the people -- Puerto Ricans in New York : memoirs of Bernardo Vega and Piri Thomas's Down these mean streets -- Cuban American poetry : the Cuban American divide -- Master codes of Cuban American culture : Oscar Hijuelos's The mambo kings play songs of love and Cristina Garcia's Dreaming in Cuban -- Dominican American poetry : culture in the middest -- Search for identity in Julia Alvarez's How the Garcia girls lost their accents -- Postmeditation on Latino, race, and identity.
