From Nationalist Movements to Transnational Solidarities: Comparative and Pan-Latina/o Literary Studies Reference library
Marta Caminero-Santangelo
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Latina and Latino Literature
...interaction and socialization—although once again differences in background (Puerto Rican versus Cuban exile) and the political differences those backgrounds largely shape divide any coherent panethnic Latina community, serving this time as an actual flashpoint of interpersonal violence between the Cuban American narrator and her Puerto Rican girlfriend (an advocate for Puerto Rican independence from the United States). In Dominican American writer Junot Díaz’s debut (and semiautobiographical) short story cycle Drown ( 1996 ), one of the stories,...
