Constructing Historical Memory in U.S. Central American Literature

This presentation offered an analysis of the ways in which several texts from the 2017 multi-genre anthology “The Wandering Song: Central American Writing in the United States,” edited by Leticia Hernández Linares, Rubén Martínez and Héctor Tobar, move toward the construction of a U.S. Central American identity. He argued that this volume sheds light on the relation between the deeply intertwined histories of the U.S and Central America and the waves of migration to the U.S. that have ensued over the last forty years.