sentences:  In Vasquez's "Interrogative Justice in Hector Tobar's The Tattooed Soldier," he writes, "Much of this scholarship stresses the novel’s pertinence to a demand for the [US] representation of the Central American diaspora.Consequently, in adopting cultural recognition as a precept, these Latinx literary critics often interpret the novel as an allegory for the diaspora’s success or failure to achieve recognition and inclusion within the broader polity.For critic and novelist Arturo Arias, the novel and its characters express the null space of Central American cultural and social identity within US multiculturalism."