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Julia Alvarez and the Anxiety of Latina Representation
In this essay, I propose a meditation on the anxiety of representation caused by "broken" memories that intersect Julia Alvarez's national identity(ies) and self-presentation. I look at select…
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Encountering American Faultlines: Race, Class, and the Dominican Experience in Providence
The dilemma of domestic work in postapartheid South Africa should not be viewed as an isolated phenomenon of marginal interest to sociologists. The globalization of paid domestic work means that…
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Inclusion in Motion: Cultural Agency Through Dance in Bahia, Brazil
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The tears of Hispaniola : Haitian and Dominican diaspora memory
"The Tears of Hispaniola" explores the ways in which Haitian and Dominican autobiography and fiction serve as public record - documenting violence, terror, memory, and human rights violations on the…
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The Restavèk Condition: Jean-Robert Cadet's Disclosure1
For so many of us Haitians, sorrow is part of our genetic code. We drink our tears in our mother's wombs... The thunder I have known, that I have fled with all my soul and now return to, humbled, is…
Ruin memory: Havana beyond the revolution
This article defines ruin memory and offers a literary history of special period Havana, read, diagnosed, and represented with curiosity, wonder, and critique in a debate over utopia versus dystopia.…
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Coralie, an Emblematic Anti-Heroine
When I heard of the passing of Paulette Poujol Oriol, my heart sank. We, teachers and scholars of Caribbean literature and culture, have lost a major literary figure and a powerful activist. Yet, her…
Recontextualization, A Caribbean Legacy
701 feminine as counterhegemonic, and that Aidoo and Cliff advocate a return to their homelands as a premise for their call to decolonization. These observations could have become arguments for the…
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Our Memories, Ourselves
Unable to hold onto a mythic Cuba, we turn to noting the ways in which Cuba and Cubans have evolved over the past half‐century, and how our needs for exile, migrations, and diaspora—as well as the…
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Introduction: Proceedings from the US Latino/a Studies Program 25 Year Anniversary Symposium
I was hired in 2017 to resuscitate the US Latino/a Studies Program (USLS) at Iowa State University. I saw my first step as one of research. What had happened? What was needed? Both cautiously and…
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