Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Troubling America(s)
1. Spaces of the Southwest: Dis-ease, Disease, and Healing in Denise Chavez's The Last of the Menu Girls and Face of an Angel
2. Mestizaje in the Midwest: Remapping National Identityin the American Heartland in Ana Castillo’s Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros’s Caramelo
3. Colonization and Transgression in Puerto Rican Spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer’s The Line of the Sun and The Meaning of Consuelo
4. Memoirs of Resistance: Colonialism and Transnationalismin Esmeralda Santiago’s When I Was Puerto Rican, Almost a Woman, and The Turkish Lover
5. Tales of the Unexpected: Cuban American Narratives of Place and Body in Himilce Novas’s Princess Papaya
Postscript. The Illegal Aliens of American Letters: Troubling the Immigration Debate
Notes
Bibliography
Index
About the Author