Ellen McCracken is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, specializing in U.S. Latino and Latin American literature. Her books include: Decoding Women's Magazines, New Latina Narrative, and The Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez, winner of a Southwest Book Award.

"Paratexts and Performance in the Novels of Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros is a timely and welcome addition to both Latina/o and Chicana/o studies and the study of paratextual analysis of literature." - Niamh Thornton, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, UK

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction1. Epitextual and Peritextual Portals to Portals to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao2. Autographic Peritexts and Expanding Footnotes in Díaz's Novel 3. Navigating Exterior Networks to Caramelo4. Peritextual Thresholds of the Material Print ArtifactEpilogue

Ellen McCracken is Professor of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California, Santa Barbara, USA, specializing in U.S. Latino and Latin American literature. Her books include: Decoding Women's Magazines, New Latina Narrative, and The Life and Writing of Fray Angélico Chávez, winner of a Southwest Book Award.

"Paratexts and Performance in the Novels of Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros is a timely and welcome addition to both Latina/o and Chicana/o studies and the study of paratextual analysis of literature." - Niamh Thornton, Senior Lecturer in Latin American Studies, University of Liverpool, UK

• List of IllustrationsAcknowledgements Introduction1. Epitextual and Peritextual Portals to Portals to The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao2. Autographic Peritexts and Expanding Footnotes in Díaz's Novel 3. Navigating Exterior Networks to Caramelo4. Peritextual Thresholds of the Material Print ArtifactEpilogue