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In Letter to Arturo, Mexican-American poet Lucha Corpi pens a song of love to her son: You've hardly left \/ and already I miss the light \/ caress of your hands \/ on my hair, \/ and your laughter and your tears, \/ and all your questions \/ about seas, \/ moons and deserts. \/ And all my poems \/ are tying themselves together \/ in my throat. \u003cp\u003e More than 60 Latino poets are represented in this wide-ranging collection that focuses on poetry from the four largest groups in the United States: Mexican Americans, Cuban Americans, Puerto Ricans and Dominican Americans. 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Slavery was abolished in 1886, but, one hundred years later, Cuban authors were still writing antislavery narratives. William Luis explores this seeming paradox in his groundbreaking study \u003ci\u003eLiterary Bondage\u003c\/i\u003e, asking why this literary genre has remained a viable means of expression.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eApplying Foucault's theory of counter-discourse to a vast body of antislavery literature, Luis shows how these narratives have always served to undermine the foundations of slavery, to protest the marginalized status of blacks in Cuban society, and to rewrite the canon of acceptable history and literature. 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The book is divided into three sections, each focused on representative Puerto Rican American, Cuban American, and Dominican American authors. Luis traces the writers' origins and influences from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing especially on the contemporary works of Oscar Hijuelos, Julia Alvarez, Cristina Garcia, and Piri Thomas, among others. While engaging in close readings of the texts, Luis places them in a broader social, historical, political, and racial perspective to expose the tension between text and context.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eAs a group, Latino Caribbeans write an ethnic literature in English that is born of their struggle to forge an identity separate from both the influences of their parents' culture and those of the United States. For these writers, their parents' country of origin is a distant memory. 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