Voices out of Africa in twentieth-century Spanish Caribbean literature

Introduction: Passage to the Caribbean

Cultural identity in difference : imaginary dialogues, from Fernando Ortiz to Alejo Carpentier

(De)Colonizing the Other : writing as resistance, from Lydia Cabrera's writings to Guillermo Cabrera Infante's Tres tristes tigres (Three trapped tigers)

Cimmarrón : the runaway slave as Arch-text

Ilé-Iyá-Ewelabá : home, mother, Monte : rewriting the (M)Other, postmodernity, and the ethics of writing, Eduardo Rodríguez Julia's Crónicas de Nueva Venecia and Zoé Valdés's Querido primer novio.