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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... identity,” and scrutinizing the merging of histories and linguistic ... Puerto Rican experience. Critical analysis of the literary works ... Puerto Rican Introduction: The Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora and Its Critical Practice.
... Puerto Rican diasporic consciousness that José Luis González would analyze eloquently in his landmark essay “El ... identity within a sphere of growing globalization. If there were Puerto Rican writers considered sojourners, then we may ...
New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Jose L. Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydee ... identity, is in itself “an identity postcolonial people have developed within the colonizing country—an identity that does ...
... Puerto Rican writers in the United States, Flores argues that their absence of cultural capital has much to do with their “in-betweenness.” Puerto Ricans stubbornly refuse to accept the hyphenation that characterizes other ethnic identities ...
... Puerto Rican Nation on the Move. The critics in this volume, like other contemporary critics, analyze these issues ... identity for future writers. We can consider the “modernizing” perspective as the precursor of the present diasporic ...
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |