"Dialogues Across Diasporas focuses on the shared historical legacies of members of the Africana and Latina diasporas, and the cultural impact of the African diaspora in the Americas. This book seeks to emphasize connections rather than divisions among different migratory ethnic communities via a reconfiguration of borders and ethnic identities. This collection of essays has three major goals: first, to foreground shared themes and strat ..."
"European Writers in Exile collects a series of original essays that address the writers’ universal existential dilemma, when viewed through the lens of exile: who am I, where am I from, and what do I write, and to whom? While we often understand the term “exile” to refer to writers who have either been forced to leave their home country or region or chosen self-exile, this term need not be defined so narrowly, and the contributors to th ..."
"... and Culture in the United States, the most comprehensive anthology on Afro-
Latina/o literature and scholarship in the United States to date, editors Miriam
Jimenez Roman and Juan Flores define Afro-Latina/os as “people of African
descent in Mexico, Central and South America, and the Spanish-speaking
Caribbean, and by extension those of African descent in the United States whose
origins are in Latin America and the Caribbean.”5 ..."