The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love | Essays and Criticism

  • Necessary Nestor

    In this essay, Kelly explores the idea that The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love would have been a more powerful novel if the character of Nestor had been edited out.

  • I Came, I Saw, I Conga’d

    In the following essay, Perez Firmat examines Mambo Kings within the context of the recent wave of Cuban culture in the United States, identifying how the novel both embraces and drifts from Hispanic influences.