Killing Spanish: literary essays on ambivalent U.S. Latino/a identity

1. Introduction : toward a typology of U.S. Latino/a literature

2. When Papi killed Mami : allegory's magical fragments in Cristina Garcia's The Aguero sisters

3. Killing "Spanish" : Rosario Ferre's evolution from autora puertorriquena to U.S. Latina writer

4. "That animals might speak" : doubles and the uncanny in Loida Maritza Perez's Geographies of home

5. Latino rage : the life and work of Edward Rivera

6. Melancholic allegorists of the street : Piri Thomas, Junot Diaz, and Yxta Maya Murray.