Central American Writers of West Indian Origin

This is the first book-length analysis of the emerging literature written in Spanish by contemporary Central Americans whose grandparents came from the largely English-speaking islands of the Caribbean. Smart shows how the themes of language, religion, identity, exile, the plantation, mestizaje, and interracial love are explored in this literature to their fullest pan- Caribbean potential, and how they became the fundamental creative axis for such young Central American West Indian writers as Cubena, Gerardo Maloney, Quince Duncan, and Eulalia Bernard.