"Socolovsky considers how Latina fiction disrupts mainstream notions about what constitutes the US nation and national identity. Her arguments are particularly useful in discussing current debates about immigration and anti-immigration rhetoric, which links the illegal presence of Latin Americans in the US to threats this foreign culture poses to what is truly 'American.' Highly recommended."(Choice) "A wonderful extended meditation on the ways Latina writers have imagined and narrated alternative notions of 'community' in which the United States and Latin America are interdependent extensions of each other rather than strictly bounded and mutually exclusive."- Marta Caminero-Santangelo (author of On Latinidad) "This timely and insightful book offers analyses of narratives both familiar and new depicting fruitfully disruptive Latina lives. Socolovsky's readings demonstrate that U.S. Latina literature is crucial to understanding how colonial legacies increasingly trouble the contemporary nation-state." - Rafael Pérez-Torres (author of Mestizaje: Critical Uses of Race in Chicano Culture) "Socolovsky’s literary and cultural analysis is a significant contribution to the studies of Latina feminist literature, and at the same time validates the presence of Latinos and Latinas in the United States, pushing back the negative political and cultural rhetoric that is currently taking place in the public sphere."(American Studies) "Socolovsky’s...skillful reading of the texts encourages a more fluid, transnational reimaging and redefining of American cultural identity." (Journal of American Culture) "Socolovsky contributes to our reconceptualization of space as crucial to national identity and belonging." (SX Salon)
