Chicana/o and Latina/o FictionIn this new study, Ylce Irizarry moves beyond literature that prioritizes assimilation to examine how contemporary fiction depicts being Cuban, Dominican, Mexican, or Puerto Rican within Chicana o and Latina o America. Irizarry establishes four dominant categories of narrative loss, reclamation, fracture, and new memory that address immigration, gender and sexuality, cultural nationalisms, and neocolonialism. As she shows, narrative concerns have