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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... poets' incursion onto the literary scene during this period was initially marked by explosive social protest poems (e.g., Pedro Pietri's “Puerto Rican Obituary”) that were influenced by political unrest but gradually developed other ...
... poets' need to “invent a new language, a new tradition of communication,” that fits their diasporic condition. The poets must harness this new idiom to the political necessities of their people: “The Nuyorican poet fights with words ...
... Poems (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2001). 31. Victor Hernández Cruz, The Mountain in the Sea (Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2006). 32. The writings of these “neo-Nuyorican poets” have received wide attention and critical acclaim ...
... Poets Café. New York: Owl Books/Henry Holt, 1994. Algarín, Miguel, and Miguel Piñero, eds. Nuyorican Poetry: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Words and Feelings. New York: William Morrow, 1975. Anderson, Benedict. Imagined Communities ...
... Poems. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2001. ———. The Mountain in the Sea. Minneapolis: Coffee House Press, 2006. Jiménez Román, Miriam. “Allá y acá: Locating Puerto Ricans in the Diaspora(s).” Dialogo 5 (Winter/Spring 2001). Center ...
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |