Paratexts and Performance in the Novels of Junot Diaz and Sandra Cisneros

Part of a new phase of post-1960s U.S. Latino literature, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot Díaz and Caramelo by Sandra Cisneros both engage in unique networks of paratexts that center on the performance of latinidad. Here, Ellen McCracken re-envisions Gérard Genette''s paratexts for the present day, arguing that the Internet increases the range, authorship, and reach of the paratextua...