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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... immigrant newspapers, these political periodicals also saw a wider obligation to serve the cultural and social needs of their readership. In this regard, “during the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth century, they were the ...
... immigrant literature.” As did José Luis González, Barradas cites the historical significance of the diaspora and the necessity of considering its impact when analyzing literature produced by Puerto Ricans living away from their ...
... immigrant literature. This strategy, however, leads to a bifurcation of the writers, so that Mohr clearly delineates ... immigrants demonstrates a reliance on a theoretical framework that eventually cannot serve to explain the complexity ...
... immigrants, particularly Puerto Ricans. Maritza Stanchich discusses how the fiction of Rodney Morales historicizes and complicates the diasporic literary canon by avoiding reductive, essentialist categories, and she reveals broad and ...
... Immigrants transfer culture by oral transmission. ... They passed on not only culture but yearning.”9 The use by Vega, Colón, and Labarthe of the cuentos format is due to the persuasive power of this form, as observed by Ortiz Cofer. In ...
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |