List of Contributors


Francisco Cabanillas teaches Latin American, Caribbean, and U.S. Latino
 literature and culture at Bowling Green State University. He is currently
 working on an essay linking Alain Touraine's concept of modernity with
 the poetry of Victor HernAndez Cruz, the art of Arnaldo Roche Rabell,
 and the Latin jazz of David SAnchez.

Carmen Rita Centeno Afieses teaches at the University of Puerto Rico,
 Bayam6n. She writes for academic journals and newspapers about
 literature, cultural interpretation and education. Her 2005 book,
 Modernidady resistencia: literature obrera en Puerto Rico (1898-1910) is
 a cultural study about workers' literary production.

Juan Ram6n Fernandez is a cultural activist with two very important
 projects: the Nuyorican Cafe Teatro and the Salsa Orchestra. Some of
 his other "professions" (practiced in PR and the U.S.) have been farmer,
 corporate executive, concert producer, economic analyst, political
 activist, computer programmer, writer, and theatre group director.

Juan Gelpf teaches Latin American and Puerto Rican literature in the
 Department of Hispanic Studies of the College of Humanities at the
 University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras. He is the author of Literatura y
 paternalismo en Puerto Rico.

Rosa Guzman Merced teaches at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras
 and at the Centro de Estudios Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe.
 She is the author of Las narraciones autobiogrdficas puertorriquefias:
 Invenci6n, confesi6n, apologia y afectividad.

Elidio La Torre Lagares is a writer, editor, and professor of literature and
 creative writing at the University of Puerto Rico, Rio Piedras and Sacred
 Heart University. He is a Ph.D. candidate at the Centro de Estudios
 Avanzados de Puerto Rico y el Caribe. He has published three volumes
 of poetry, a collection of short stories, Septiembre, and two novels,
 Historia de un dios pequefo and Gracia.
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