By Vanessa Pérez Rosario
This assortment explores the literary culture of Caribbean Latino literature written within the U.S. starting with José Martí and concluding with 2008 Pulitzer Prize successful novelist, Junot Díaz. The participants reflect on the best way that spatial migration in literature serves as a metaphor for gender, sexuality, racial, identification, linguistic, and nationwide migrations.
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S. military occupations of the twentieth century and the Trujillo regime. Yet, most of Bosch’s influence in Dominican culture and politics was exercised from exile where he spent a large part of his productive life. Inspired by the ideals of solidarity and unity that Eugenio María de Hostos and José Martí had dreamt of in the nineteenth century, Juan Bosch was able to become, during his long and multiple absences (1938–1962, 1963–1970), one of the first thinkers to articulate and promote the creation of a transnational dominicanidad that could exist outside the geographical borders of the nation.
35) With the support of Enrique Cotubanamá Henríquez (Pedro Henríquez Ureña’s brother), Juan Isidro Jimenes Grullón, and many other important Dominican and Latin American thinkers, Bosch took on the difficult task of organizing the very disperse Dominican exiles into a transnational unified community in order to create a revolutionary party that would potentially fight the Trujillo regime and return peace and democracy to the country: “Yo no aceptaba posponer la tarea de proceder a organizar a los dominicanos exiliados [.
Travel writers who had become authoritative interpreters of culture and politics in Mexico and Argentina. 8 Martí lived in the United States as a migrant—without ever becoming a citizen. His journalism emphasized the liminal moments of arrival during the constant waves of arrivants during these years, which permits him to illustrate for his readers common vulnerabilities and aspirations among Latino migrants and other groups struggling with the lasting effects of conquest, enslavement, and xenophobia.