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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... mujer) (viii). Capetillo furthers this compelling argument in the opening selection, “La mujer en el hogar, en la familia, en el gobierno” (Women in the Home, in the Family, in Government). This essay proclaims marriage the most ...
... mujer como para el hombre, no es más que una gran justicia. Eso no forzará nunca a las “frías” a ser apasionadas, pero permitirá á las apasionadas no sufrir más la cautividad de leyes convencionales y sociales. (44) [Free love for women ...
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Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |