Troubling Nationhood in U.S. Latina Literature: Explorations of Place and Belonging

Introduction: Troubling America(s)

Spaces of the Southwest: dis-ease, disease, and healing in Denise Chávez's The last of the menu girls and Face of an angel

Mestizaje in the Midwest: remapping national identity in the American heartland in Ana Castillo's Sapogonia and Sandra Cisneros' Caramelo

Colonization and transgression in Puerto Rican spaces: Judith Ortiz Cofer's Line of the sun and The meaning of Consuelo

Memoirs of resistance: colonialism and transnationalism in Esmeralda Santiago's When I was Puerto Rican, Almost a woman, and The Turkish lover

Tales of the unexpected: Cuban-American narratives of place and body in Himilce Novas' Princess papaya

Postscript: The illegal aliens of American letters: troubling the immigration debate.