Cover Page -- Title Page -- Copyrights -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Part I : Place and Diaspora Literature -- Introduction -- 1. Reformulating Diaspora Spatialities -- Part II : Diasporizing Local Color and Regionalism -- 2. Crossing Delancey: Jewish Diaspora Locality and U.S. Literature -- 3. Pluralism in the Immigrant Prairie: Willa Cather's Civilized Primitives -- Part III : Writing Enclosure and Translocality in the Civil Rights Era and After -- 4. "Cuando Lleguemos/When We Arrive": The Small Town and the Poetics of Chicana/o Place -- 5. The Poetics of Aquí: Barriocentrism in Puerto Rican Diaspora Literature from Mean Streets to Neo-Noir -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.