Volume 45 / Number 90 2018 This article participates in debates surrounding the ethics of international travel through analysis of contemporary short fiction by Dominican writer Aurora Arias, and Cubans Alberto Guerra Naranjo and Mylene Fernández Pintado. By portraying local and foreign writers and scholars these works highlight the ethics and politics of mobility existing in transnational encounters, and the ramifications for the creative process of Caribbean artists and intellectuals. I

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... e what these works communicate about the struggle of Caribbean cultural workers to be recognized and heard by their counterparts based in North America and Europe, as well as a broader readership. Arias and Guerra Naranjo employ metafictional elements to critique and challenge feelings of illegitimacy, while all three artists use humor to turn the tables on power relations and inspire reflection on the ethics 1 of encounters and collaboration between local and foreign intellectuals. This is part of a larger study on post 1990 cultural texts that provide insight into how economic struggles and limited opportunities for development have increasingly pushed locals out of the Spanish Caribbean and brought foreigners in, and in turn how this affects culture and identity for those who stay. Teresita Martínez Vergne and Franklin W. Knight point out ways in which globalization in the Caribbean mirrors the repercussions of colonialism and imperialism in earlier periods, in particular, persistent relations of dominance: "Globalization, in short, has not so far resulted in a market relationship between the various participants that is more equitable and just. Rather it has accentuated hegemonies and manifestly reinforced global inequality" (7). The Dominican Republic and ABSTRACT: This article participates in debates surrounding the ethics of international travel through analysis of contemporary short fiction by Dominican writer Aurora Arias, and Cubans Alberto Guerra Naranjo and Mylene Fernández Pintado. Through characters who are local and foreign writers and scholars, these works highlight the ethics and politics of mobility existing in transnational encounters, and the ramifications for the creative process of Caribbean cultural workers. I examine what these works communicate about the struggle