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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... Marisol (1994) and Carmen Rivera's Julia (1992).33 Other diasporic Puerto Rican writers rely on the use of autobiography and memoir in dealing with racism, poverty, marginality, and intergenerational and intercultural clashes. Following ...
... Marisol and Other Plays (New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1997); Carmen Rivera, Julia, in Antush, Nuestro New York, 133–178. For further information on Puerto Rican drama, see John Antush, Recent Puerto Rican Theater: Five Plays ...
... Marisol and Other Plays. New York: Theatre Communications Group, 1997. Rodríguez, Abraham. The Boy without a Flag. Minneapolis: Milkwood, 1999. ———. The Buddha Book. New York: Picador, 2001. ———. Spidertown. New York: Penguin, 1994 ...
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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 |