This monograph compares the ways in which literary works and films reflect on and critique the power relations and ethics of im/mobility and encounter, both on the islands and in destinations abroad, against the backdrop of a surge in migration and tourism during the last three decades.

Dr. Andrea Easley Morris is Associate Professor of Spanish at Louisiana State University and specializes in the literature and cultures of the Hispanic Caribbean. Her book, Afro-Cuban identity in Post-Revolutionary Novel and Film: Inclusion, Loss, and Cultural Resistance, was published by Bucknell University Press in 2012. The tension between textual/visual representation and material experience marked by race and gender appears as an ongoing concern in her work on the cultural expression of the Dominican Republic, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. For a future project, she is interested in studying the potential impact of an Afro-Caribbean Diasporic framework on secondary and post-secondary education in Louisiana, a Caribbean outpost in the U.S.

Chapter 1 Contextualizing Dominican and Cuban Im/mobilities since the 1960s

Chapter 2 The Weight of Travel: Anticipated, Attempted, and Witnessed Departures

Chapter 3 Dominicans and Cubans abroad: Moving on and Finding Connection

Chapter 4 Return Encounters: Working through Obstacles to Connection and Belonging

Chapter 5 Tourists and Expatriates: Transnational Intimacy and the Ethics of Im/mobility

Chapter 6 Academic and Creative Encounters: Controlling the Narrative