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...

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...

Historically, the role of a playwright or storyteller creates social narratives that are rooted in a community and function as intrinsic theatrical representations of a particular community. Plays...

A transnational music scene has developed since the 1960s connecting New York City with Santiago, Dominican Republic, through merengue típico, or traditional, accordion-based merengue (also termed...

This paper examines the trajectory of Nicanor Bolet Peraza in his role of exile writer and editor of the journal La Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York during the years of 1885-1890...

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...