The Afro-Latin@ Experience in Contemporary American Literature and Culture

1. Introduction
Jill Toliver Richardson

2. Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Intergenerational Trauma in Junot Díaz’s The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Jill Toliver Richardson

3. Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican Women’s Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home

Jill Toliver Richardson

4. “Boricua, Moreno”: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era
Jill Toliver Richardson

5. Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints

Jill Toliver Richardson

6. Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillo’s Loosing My Espanish

Jill Toliver Richardson

Nyckelord: Cultural and Media Studies, Latino Culture, African American Culture, North American Literature, Contemporary Literature