With its focus on Latina/o communities in the United States, this collection of essays identifies and investigates the salient narrative and aesthetic strategies with which an individual or a collective represents transnational experiences and identities in literary and cultural texts.

Introduction: Imagined Transnationalism: Refiguring Latino/a Literature, Culture, and Identity; K.Concannon, F.Lomelí  & M.Priewe Chicano Transnation; B.Ashcroft A Schematic Approach to Understanding Latino Transnational Literary Texts; N.Kanellos Para Español Oprima el Número Dos: Trans-nationalism, Translation, and U.S. Latino/a Literature; M.Sánchez Transnational Migrations and Political Mobilizations: The Case of A Day Without a Mexican; M.Herrera-Sobek The Imagined Transnationalism of Gender-Based Violence at the Mexico-U.S. Border; C.Sadowski-Smith Precursors of Hemispheric Writing: Latin America, the Caribbean, and Early U.S.-American Identity; G.Pisarz-Ramírez Slammin' in Transnational Heterotopia: Words Being Spoken at the Nuyorican Poets Café; H.Zapf A Broader and Wiser Revolution: Refiguring Chicano Nationalist Politics in Latin American Consciousness in Post-Movement Chicana/o Literature; T.Libretti Oppositional Consciousness, Travel, and Ethics in Juan Felipe Herrera's Mayan Drifter; M.A.Oliver ¿Dónde Estás Vos/z ? Performing Salvadoreñidades in Washington D.C.; A.P.Rodríguez With Bertolt Brecht and the Aztecs Towards an Imagined Transnationalism: A Case Study at the Turn to the 3rd Millenniu; K.Ikas The Final Frontier: Imagining Latinos in Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Gustavo Vasquez's The Great Mojado Invasion (The 2nd US-Mexico War); C.Leen Writing the Haitian Diaspora: The Trans-National Contexts of Edwidge Danticat's The Dew Breaker; R.L.Ortíz