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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... Miguel Algarín's house gave way to live performances—the precursors of today's poetry slams—at the Nuyorican Poets Café, founded in 1974 by Algarín and Miguel Piñero in Manhattan's Lower East Side (better known to denizens as “Loisaida ...
... Algarín also emphasizes poets' sociopolitical responsibility to their people; the poet “tells the tale of the streets to the streets” (11). In a later essay, Algarín ... Miguel Piñero, a Nuyorican poet, was also the most widely recognized and ...
... grouped under “postmodernism” and “postcolonial” that attempt to explain the cultural consequences of global capitalism. The early critical work of José Luis González, Miguel Algarín, 12 José L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen Haydée Rivera.
... Miguel Algarín, Efraín Barradas, and Mohr acknowledges the significance of the migration process to literary production, but these authors seem determined to situate the literature within one national literary canon, be it Puerto Rican ...
... Miguel Algarín and Miguel Piñero, eds., Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings (New York: William Morrow, 1975); Sandra María Esteves, Yerba Buena: Dibujos y poemas, Greenfield Review Chapbook 47 (Greenfield ...
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |