“One of the undeniable strengths of The White Trash Menace is the unflinching eye Soto-Crespo brings to the white trash characters who populate the pages of the hundreds of books he read as part of his research. … One finishes The White Trash Menace persuaded that a cohesive textual corpus of ‘white trash’ fiction requires our critical attention.” —Caroline Levander, Journal of Modern Literature
“Soto-Crespo’s multi-layered framework interweaves compelling revisionist readings of high canonical novels with succinct descriptions of disposable pulp fiction and in so doing challenges settled understandings of transnational circulation across the Anglophone Americas.” —Donald E. Pease
“Because of the shockingly amusing nature of the fiction it rehearses, The White Trash Menace and Hemispheric Fiction is as pleasurable as it is instructive to peruse.” —Robert L. Caserio