Jill Toliver Richardson is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), USA where she teaches Contemporary Urban Writers and Latina/o Literature and composition.  She was a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship and has previously published in the journals Label Me Latina/o and CENTRO.

• Introduction.- Chapter One: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.- Chapter Two:Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican Women’s Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home.- Chapter Three:‘Boricua, Moreno’: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era.- Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints.- Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillo’s Loosing My Espanish.- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad.

Jill Toliver Richardson is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), USA where she teaches Contemporary Urban Writers and Latina/o Literature and composition.  She was a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship and has previously published in the journals Label Me Latina/o and CENTRO.

• Introduction.- Chapter One: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.- Chapter Two:Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican Women’s Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home.- Chapter Three:‘Boricua, Moreno’: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era.- Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints.- Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillo’s Loosing My Espanish.- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad.

Jill Toliver Richardson is Assistant Professor of English at Borough of Manhattan Community College (CUNY), USA where she teaches Contemporary Urban Writers and Latina/o Literature and composition.  She was a recipient of the Woodrow Wilson Career Enhancement Fellowship and has previously published in the journals Label Me Latina/o and CENTRO.

• Introduction.- Chapter One: Enduring the Curse: The Legacy of Inter-generational Trauma in Junot Díaz's The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.- Chapter Two:Haunting Legacies: Forging Afro-Dominican Women’s Identity in Loida Maritza Pérez’s Geographies of Home.- Chapter Three:‘Boricua, Moreno’: Laying Claim to Blackness in the Post-Civil Rights Era.- Chapter Four: Afro-Latin Magical Realism, Historical Memory, Identity, and Space in Angie Cruz’s Soledad and Nelly Rosario’s Song of the Water Saints.- Chapter Five: Memory and the Afro-Cuban Missing Link in H.G. Carrillo’s Loosing My Espanish.- Conclusion: Conceptualizing Afro-Latinidad.