Writing Off the Hyphen: New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican DiasporaJose L. Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydee Rivera The sixteen essays in Writing Off the Hyphen approach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora from current theoretical positions, with provocative and insightful results. The authors analyze how the diasporic experience of Puerto Ricans is played out in the context of class, race, gender, and sexuality and how other themes emerging from postcolonialism and postmodernism come into play. Their critical work also demonstrates an understanding of how the process of migration and the relations between Puerto Rico and the United States complicate notions of cultural and national identity as writers confront their bilingual, bicultural, and transnational realities. |
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... Esmeralda Santiago are among the writers who capture this bicultural, bilingual, evolving nature of the Puerto Rican experience during the latter part of the third period of settlement mentioned in Clara Rodríguez's article. Levins ...
... Esmeralda Santiago—deploy female agency and cultural resistance against dominant Anglo discourses within a mainland context influenced by Puerto Rico's commonwealth status to highlight how the history of U.S. involvement with Puerto ...
... Esmeralda Santiago, When I Was Puerto Rican (New York: Vintage, 1994); Esmeralda Santiago, Almost a Woman (New York: Vintage, 1999); Esmeralda Santiago, The Turkish Lover (New York: Perseus Books, 2004). 47. Luisita López Torregrosa ...
... Santiago, Esmeralda. Almost a Woman. New York: Vintage, 1999. ———. The Turkish Lover. New York: Perseus Books, 2004. ———. When I Was Puerto Rican. New York: Vintage, 1994. Singh, Amritjit, and Peter Schmidt. “On the Borders between U.S. ...
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Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |