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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... Hereafter cited in text. 7. Juan Flores, “'Qué assimilated, brother, yo soy asimilao': The Structuring of Puerto Rican Identity in the US,” in his Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1993). 8 ...
... Hereafter cited in text. 27. Frances Aparicio, “La vida es un Spanglish disparatero: Bilingualismo in Nuyorican Poetry,” in European Perspectives on Hispanic Literature of the United States, ed. Genevieve Fabre (Houston: Arte Público ...
... Hereafter cited in text. See n. 17. 49. These two essays appeared in ADE Bulletin 91 (Winter 1988). Flores's essay was later published in A. LaVonne Brown Ruoff and Jerry W. Ward, eds., Redefining American Literary History (New York ...
... Hereafter cited in text. “Boricua” refers “to the Puerto Rican diasporan community at large” (1). 51. William Luis, Dance between Two Cultures (Nashville, TN: Vanderbilt University Press, 1997), 280. Hereafter cited in text. 52. Miriam ...
... Hereafter cited in text. 2. Cornell West, Race Matters (New York: Vintage Books, 1994), 29. 3. Susan Willis, Specifying: Black Women Writing the American Experience (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1987), 213. 4. Jesús Colón, A ...
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |