This book analyzes the diasporic experiences of migratory and postcolonial subjects in the U.S., the U.S.-Mexico border, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula. Contributors explore intertextual transatlantic dialogues, migratory experiences, cultural exchanges, identity construction, and the artificial boundaries of nation states.

Transatlantic, Transcultural, and Transnational Dialogues on Identity, Culture, and Migration analyzes the diasporic experiences of migratory and postcolonial subjects through the lenses of cultural studies, critical race theory, narrative theory, and border studies. These narratives cover the United States, the U.S.-Mexico border, the Hispanophone Caribbean, and the Iberian Peninsula and illustrate a shared diasporic experience across the Atlantic. Through a transatlantic, transcultural, and transnational lens, this volume brings together essays on literature, film, and music from disparate geographic areas: Spain, Cuba and Jamaica, the U.S.-Mexico border, and Colombia. Throughout the volume, the contributors explore intertextual transatlantic dialogues, and migratory experiences of diasporic subjects and queer subjectivities. The chapters also examine the use of language to preserve Latinx culture, colonial and Spanish cultural exchanges, border identities, and race, gender, identity, and cultural production. In turn, these diasporic experiences result from transatlantic, transcultural, and transnational phenomena that converge in a globalized society and aid in questioning the artificial boundaries of nation states.

Introduction: Transatlanticism, Transculturalism, and Transnationalism

Lori Celaya and Sonja S. Watson

Part I Globalization, Transculturation, and Hybridity

Chapter 1: Religious Conversion, Citizenship, and Migration in Reyes Monforte’s Un burka por amor [A Burka for Love]

Marta Boris Tarré

Chapter 2: “It Is but One World”: Revisiting Globalization, Transculturation, and Hybridity in Light of the US Hispanic/Latinx Experience

Martín Carrión

Chapter 3: Transatlantic and Transtemporal Dialogues vis-à-vis Parody and Samplingin Raining Backwards by Roberto G. Fernández.

Stephanie Álvarez

Chapter 4: From Hero to Queero: Transatlantic Geotext of Francisco Aragón and Frederico García Lorca

Jana F. Gutiérrez Kerns

Part II Diaspora, Citizenship, and Migration

Chapter 5: Immigration, Identity, and the Other in Pasajeros (2001) by Elio Palecia

Eugenia Charoni

Chapter 6: Diaspora, Citizenship, and Belonging: Third- and Fourth-Generation Cubans of Jamaican Descent and the Quest for Jamaican Citizenship

Paulette A. Ramsay

Chapter 7: Bidirectional Shifts and Transformations in and through US Latina Diasporic Narratives

Lori Celaya

Part III Transatlantic Readings of Race, Gender, and Identity through Cultural Production

Chapter 8: Narcissism and Melancholia: A Transnational Dialogue on Whiteness through La esclava blanca

JM. Persánch

Chapter 9: Evoking Africa: The Music of Jairo Varela and Grupo Niche

Luisa Marcela Ossa

Chapter 10: Teaching (Afro-Latin) American Hip-Hop across the Americas: A Transatlantic Approach

Sonja S. Watson