Writing Off the Hyphen: New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican DiasporaJosé L. Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydée 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. The collection has considerable breadth and depth. It covers earlier, undertheorized writers such as Luisa Capetillo, Pedro Juan Labarthe, Bernardo Vega, Pura Belpré, Arturo Schomburg, and Graciany Miranda Archilla. Prominent writers such as Rosario Ferré and Judith Ortiz Cofer are discussed alongside often-neglected writers such as Honolulu-based Rodney Morales and gay writer Manuel Ramos Otero. The essays cover all the genres and demonstrate that current theoretical ideas and approaches create exciting opportunities and possibilities for the study of Puerto Rican diasporic literature. |
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... A. SANDLIN 16 Subverting the Mainland : Transmigratory Biculturalism in U.S. Puerto Rican Women's Fiction 332 MARY JANE SUERO - ELLIOTT Contributors 351 Index 355 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS T o our contributors , our deepest gratitude for.
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Contents
Earlier Voices | 16 |
Early Puerto Rican Writing in the United | 31 |
Luisa Capetillo Anarchy and Boricua | 52 |
Ethnogenesis and Three Early | 81 |
Anarchism in the Work of Aurora Levins Morales | 107 |
Notes on the Emergence | 125 |
The Political Left and the Development of Nuyorican Poetry | 143 |
Ernesto Quiñonezs | 165 |
Reworking a Tradition | 221 |
Mapping Puerto Rican Collective Memory | 239 |
Translating Home in the Work of Judith Ortiz Cofer | 256 |
The Road the Journey and Home | 274 |
Identity of the Diasporican Homosexual in the Literary | 295 |
Manuel Ramos Oteros Queer Metafictional Resurrection | 313 |
Transmigratory Biculturalism | 332 |
Contributors | 351 |