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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... contexts. Informed by research in the humanities, arts, and social sciences; transnational and diasporic studies; film studies; legal studies; public policy, environmental, urban, and rural studies, books in the series will aim to ...
... context and causes for leaving the island as well as the political and economic relationships between Puerto Rico and the United States that prompted this move.5 During the first period (1900–1945), Puerto Ricans migrated mainly for ...
... context. His critical analysis identifies a difficulty in labeling all diasporic production as “Nuyorican” and sees the lack of “categorias criticas apropriadas para el estudio de estas creaciones” (appropriate critical categories to ...
... contexts and linguistic codes.44 Ortiz Cofer also questions antiquated expectations and patterns of behavior, particularly those related to gender, in essays such as “The Story of My Body” and “The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a ...
... context of the ever-present and pressing issues 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 ...
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |