Today's world is marked by migration and by the continuous redrawing of geographical and cultural borders. Therefore it is only natural that the stories that need to be told nowadays are those of immigrants, more than the almost outdated myths of the majority of national literatures. Dreaming in Cuban (1992) and The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao (2007) are two original examples of Cuban respectively Dominican migrants, who fight for a new existence in the US. Junot Diaz was awarded the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award, while Cristina Garcia has become one of the...
Today's world is marked by migration and by the continuous redrawing of geographical and cultural borders. Therefore it is only natural that the stori...