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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... Juan Flores, Frances Aparicio, Efraín Barradas, Arnaldo CruzMalavé, Frances Negrón-Mutaner, Ramón Grosfoguel, Jorge Duany, William Luis, Lisa Sánchez-González, and the late Eugene Mohr, among others. Your groundbreaking scholarship has ...
... Juan Flores (“the state of abandon”),7 in which the newly arrived migrant is confronted with an environment totally different from the one he or she left on the island. 2 José L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen Haydée Rivera.
... Juan Flores's 1984 translation exposed Vega's story to a wider, English-speaking audience and helped consolidate the work's reputation as a seminal contribution that fills many critical voids in conventional assessments of the Puerto ...
... Juan Flores aptly claims, “foreshadowed the onset of Nuyorican literature in New York” but probably also looked forward to Luis Rafael Sánchez's “flying bus” metaphor.20 This corpus of writing, for the most part, presents a bleak and ...
... Juan Flores, who have consistently contributed to the critical conversation on the literature. In an essay published in 1992, Acosta-Belén expands on an earlier essay written seventeen years ago. The later essay is actually a deft ...
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |