vi TABLE CONTENTS Elena Machado Sdez The Routes of Global Nostalgia in Cristina Garcia's Dream ing in Cuban ............................ ...................... 91 Saikat Majumdar Modernism in the basement: subversive discourse in Wide Sargasso Sea.................... ............................................... 105 Alison J. Van Nyhuis Nationalistic Myopia: Pocomania's Reflection and Projection of the Jamaican Nation.......................................... 115 Edith VAzquez Contando Contigo: Yohamna De Corcho and African-Cuban Hip Hop Fiction ......................... ................... 129 BOOK REVIEWS Raphael Dalleo A New World Order by Caryl Phillips............................................. 143 Sally Everson ..................................... .................................................... Caribbean Masculinities: Working Papers edited by Rafael L. Ramirez, Victor I. Garcia-Toro, and Ineke Cunningham. ..................................... 146 Deonne Minto Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora by Lisa Sanchez-Gonzalez ................................................ 149 Nereida Prado The Fisher King by Paule Marshall .......................... .................... 152 Don E. Walicek The Construction and Representation of Race and Ethnicity in the Caribbean and the World by Mervyn C. Alleyne ................. 154 List of Contributors ................ ..................................................... 159