Review 77 breaks from our recent country- and region-focused issues to concentrate on the topic of Latin American immigration and culture. As our readers know, aside from its imaginative possibilities, this is a timely topic in the United States given the ongoing discussion about immigration and its challenges, with greater resonance for an expanding global culture.
In this issue, guest editors Carmen Boullosa and Luca Melgar have developed, respectively, creative and academic sections featuring work by writers and scholars from all over Latin America—Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Cuba, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Puerto Rico, and Uruguay—many of whom now live in the United States either part- or full-time. As the guest editors remark in their introductions, the contributors' various texts present the reader with a wealth of subjects and collectively explore common themes implicit in the topic of immigration.
