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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... academic areas in major universities, and, eventually, the publication of literary works that formerly would have been ignored or bypassed. The autodenominated Nuyorican poets' incursion onto the literary scene during this period was ...
... universities. The concern with political and social issues continues to the present and is emblematic of such productions as José Rivera's Marisol (1994) and Carmen Rivera's Julia (1992).33 Other diasporic Puerto Rican writers rely on ...
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |