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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... Rico and the United States that prompted this move.5 During the first period (1900–1945), Puerto Ricans migrated mainly for socioeconomic and political reasons. Many workers were affected by a deteriorating economic infrastructure ...
... Rico. Getting over this initial stage of cultural and linguistic disruption marks the beginning of an adaptation process that enables the migrant to exist within the hostility and limitations of the new environment. Vega's Memoirs ...
... Rico and the United States. The Latinization of American society is increasingly visible in the popularity of Puerto Rican customs, traditions, food, music, and celebrations, as well as those from other Caribbean and Latin American ...
... Rico and enter the “really” racist mainland U.S. society.52 In response to Thomas's statement about being “caught up between two sticks,” Jiménez Román retorts that these writers “are actually stuck between the myth of racial democracy ...
... Rico's commonwealth status to highlight how the history of U.S. involvement with Puerto Rico makes the act of establishing a successful home on the continent an act of resistance. Instead of critiquing U.S. hegemony through a self ...
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |