Abstract
- In the recent years some US Latino authors have shifted the focus of their writings from the Latino community in the United States to the socio-political issues of the country of their origin or of their ancestors. This new emerging pattern suggests a new engagement with the people outside of United States and with those of the land of the author’s origin. This paper taking the example of three authors, Julia Alvarez, a Dominican American; Achy Obejas, a Cuban American; and Daniel Alarcón, a Peruvian American, proposes a study of the problems of representations of culture by a bicultural agent -- an outsider, yet an insider. The authors’ intentions very much like the cultural anthropologist of the Colonial period, might be sympathetic, but originates from a position of privilege and in a culture associated with power and dominance.