EVOLVING ORIGINS, TRANSPLANTING CULTURES

Download or read book EVOLVING ORIGINS, TRANSPLANTING CULTURES written by Antonia Domínguez Miguela and published by Servicio de Publicaciones de la Universidad de Huelva. This book was released on 2021-10-02 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Colección de ensayos críticos de obras literarias norteamericanas firmadas por escritores exiliados y emigrantes, o por sus descendientes, ya nacidos en EE.UU., de origen cubano, mexicano, puertorriqueño, dominicano, asiático, afrocaribeño y europeo. Las obras literarias que se analizan fueron publicadas después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial, si bien se han incluido otras anteriores por ser antecedentes de esta literatura de diversas diásporas. The volume is a collection of critical essays on North American literary works produced by immigrant and exiled writers or American-born descendants of Cuban. Mexican, Puerto Rican, Dominican, Asian, European, and Afro-Caribbean origin. These literary works were published after the Second World War even though some earlier works have been included as antecedents of these literatures of diasporas. They create an amalgam of what being an American means in contemporary society.