In this essay I propose to explore when, how and where allusions are made to space in Gaspar Pérez de Villagrá's Historia de la Nueva México. In order to appropriately discuss such a...

As the field of early American literature absorbs the influences of trans-Atlantic and hemispheric models, border zones such as La Florida provide new opportunities for research and...

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...