La socarronería y el humor, cargados a veces de ironía en los cuentos de Jorge Kattán Zablah, representan una amena pero nada frívola forma de tratar los problemas humanos y socio-político-...

Con el objetivo de desactivar tanto los límites políticos, ideológicos y morales, como los diversos purismos, temores y binarios (a saber, ‘mayoría / minoría’, ‘anglo / hispano’, ‘centro /...

Historically, scholarship on Latinos in the U.S. has not included the literary work of Dominicans in the U.S. This paper details the history of the creation of literary spaces for female and male...

Between the social imposition of childlessness upon lesbians and the cult of maternity enforced against Latinas, Cherríe Moraga asserts that the notions of motherhood and family are not given by...

This essay analyzes how Caramelo, or, puro cuento (2002) by Sandra Cisneros contests official and patriarchal renditions of the past involving Mexico and the U.S. by using narrative sub-...

My analysis focuses on Graciela Limón’s novel The Memories of Ana Calderón to show; first, how the author participates in Ellen McCracken’s idea that Latina narrativists present...