Table of Contents

1. Introduction: El Boom Latino 2. Origins: Bird and Jicotencal 3. Crossing: Vega, Gonzalez Viana, Fuentes, Oropeza 4. Arrival: Dorfman, Salazar, Sainz, Rivera-Valdes 5. Language Games: Hinojosa-Smith, Prida, Braschi 6. Conclusion: Hemispheric American Studies Notes Works Cited Index

About the Author

Debra A. Castillo is Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow and Professor of Romance Studies and of Comparative Literature at Cornell University and the coauthor (with Maria-Socorro Tabuenca Cordoba) of Border Women: Writing from La Frontera.