Description: Examines how Puerto Rican visual and literary culture on the island and in the diaspora responds to oppression, migration, and trauma.
Brief description: Nicolás Ramos Flores is Assistant Professor of Spanish at Colby College in Waterville, Maine. He is the coeditor, with Jennifer Carolina Gómez Menjívar, of Hemispheric Blackness and the Exigencies of Accountability.
Review Quotes:
"Ambitious in scope, Archipelagoes of Longing makes a significant, timely, and necessary contribution to the fields of Latinx, Puerto Rican, Caribbean, American, LGBTQ+, gender, art, and cultural studies. Especially exciting is how the book delves into the cultural production of Puerto Ricans in the archipelago and the diaspora, focusing on communities in Chicago, Philadelphia, Orlando, and the island municipality of Vieques that have been relatively understudied despite their historical and contemporary importance. Not only does the book think island-based and diaspora-based Puerto Rican identities in relation to one another, but it also, crucially, addresses pan-ethnic solidarity among different Latinx groups. I learned a lot reading it and am excited to see it in the world." -- Marisel C. Moreno, author of Crossing Waters: Undocumented Migration in Hispanophone Caribbean and Latinx Literature and Art