How should Latino writers in the United States retain specific cultural identities that may be different from even contrary to the hegemonic culture? The answer to this question varies. This book discusses how Caribbean writers Roberto G. Fernández and Tato Laviera both attempt to answer it in wildly creative ways, involving linguistic strategies and tactics, derived from some of the oldest Spanish literary traditions. These authors' «games» show how Janus speaks with his forked tongue in a monolingual space, toward a rhetoric of bilingualism.

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The Author: Rosanna Rivero Marín received her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees in Romance Languages and Literatures from Harvard University, where she taught for six years. She is currently pursuing another degree at the University of Puerto Rico.