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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... (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1993), 1:179–195. For a full study of the Puerto Rican diaspora that focuses on the most important communities that emerged in the United States, see Carmen Teresa Whalen and Victor Vázquez-Hernández, eds ...
... (Houston: Arte Público Press, 2000). 13. Ibid., 7. 14. On the Puerto Rican Herald, see ibid., 19; on Gráfico, 53–57; on Artes y Letras, 70 (see also 132n100); on Revista Ilustrada de Nueva York, 66–69. 15. On La Defensa, see ibid., 107 ...
... (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1988), 147–160. 28. Miguel Algarín, “Nuyorican Literature,” MELUS 8, no. 2 (Summer 1981): 92. 29. Tato Laviera, AmeRícan (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1985); Tato Laviera, La Carreta Made a U-Turn (Gary, IN ...
... (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1991) and Mendoza's Dreams (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1987); and the novels The Comeback (Houston: Arte Público Press, 1985), Blood Fugues (New York: Rayo/HarperCollins, 2005), among others. 41. Rodney ...
... Houston: Arte Público Press, 1993. Acosta-Belén, Edna, et al., “Adiós, Borinquen Querida”: The Puerto Rican Diaspora, Its History, and Contributions. Albany, NY: CELAC, 2000. Algarín, Miguel. “Nuyorican Literature.” MELUS 8, no. 2 ...
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |