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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... Julia de Burgos 313 BETSYBETSY A.A. SANDLINSANDLIN 16 Subverting the Mainland: Transmigratory Biculturalism in U.S. Puerto Rican Women's Fiction 332 MARYMARY JANEJANE SUERO-ELLIOTTSUERO-ELLIOTT Contributors 351 Index 355 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...
... en Manhattan; Emilio Díaz Valcárcel's Harlem todos los días; some of Julia de Burgos's poetry; and Jaime Carrero's collection of poetry, Jet neorriqueño: Neo-Rican Jet Liner,19 which not only, as Juan Flores aptly claims, “foreshadowed ...
... Julia de Burgos, a woman who has been transformed into a mythical figure and cultural icon, as an oppositional strategy that manipulates the past in order to infiltrate and critique dominant homophobic notions of Puerto Ricanness and ...
... Julia de Burgos,” both subtly censure the islands' canonical project; the first is a satiric response to a modern work of Puerto Rican dialect literature; the second is a poetic expression of empathy with a women poet who, though ...
... Julia de Burgos, or, for that matter, Manuel Zeno Gandía, the author of the great Puerto Rican novel La charca?” (44). Thus, expressing solidarity with the islands' national literary project by For the Sake of Love 55.
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |