Ileana RodrÍguez is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Ohio State University. She is a specialist in the centro-Caribbean area and has written extensively on the literature and culture of the island and mainland nations.

"This is a superb book. One of the foremost Latin American literary critics writing today, RodrÍguez offers in this study an important new perspective on the ‘foundational’ novels of early Latin-American nation-building and their relation to the modern and contemporary narratives of social transition in Central America and the Caribbean."-Ellen McCracken, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ileana RodrÍguez is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Ohio State University. She is a specialist in the centro-Caribbean area and has written extensively on the literature and culture of the island and mainland nations.

"This is a superb book. One of the foremost Latin American literary critics writing today, RodrÍguez offers in this study an important new perspective on the ‘foundational’ novels of early Latin-American nation-building and their relation to the modern and contemporary narratives of social transition in Central America and the Caribbean."-Ellen McCracken, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ileana RodrÍguez is Associate Professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Ohio State University. She is a specialist in the centro-Caribbean area and has written extensively on the literature and culture of the island and mainland nations.

"This is a superb book. One of the foremost Latin American literary critics writing today, RodrÍguez offers in this study an important new perspective on the ‘foundational’ novels of early Latin-American nation-building and their relation to the modern and contemporary narratives of social transition in Central America and the Caribbean."-Ellen McCracken, University of California, Santa Barbara