ABSTRACT
This chapter offers key examples of how identity is voiced in contemporary Dominican transnational landscapes, and the gendered forms transnationalism takes. It uses various types of material—ranging from personal migration narratives and "native" novels, written about Dominican experiences from a US-based room with a view, to local commercials, using the view to boost their products. Identity is voiced in a great variety of ways in contemporary Dominican transnational landscapes. Entering the transnational space as told in different travel stories confronts us with the problem of reference as well as representativity. The migratory legend does to a large extent offer national politics as an explanation for migration and is the travel story most often offered by Dominican 'community leaders.' The novel is a construction of national heroines, but one that simultaneously challenges the national myth. Cultural as well as political identity are constantly negotiated and reworked in the cross-national contexts.
