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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... Vega's Memoirs contain the most detailed and politically coherent account of Puerto Rican life in New York from 1916 to the aftermath of World War II . The work also reveals Vega's efforts to construct a his- torical and cultural legacy ...
... Vega's " Pollito / Chicken " exemplifies an essentialist nationalist dis- course similar to the kind underlying the coinage of " Porto Rican " by the United States . In this kind of nationalist discourse , cultures don't " fuse " or ...
... Vega , The Memoirs of Bernardo Vega : A Contribution to the History of the Puerto Rican Community in New York , ed . César Andreu Iglesias , trans . Juan Flores ( New York : Monthly Review Press , 1984 ) . 7. Solimar Otero ...
Contents
Earlier Voices | 16 |
Early Puerto Rican Writing in the United | 31 |
Luisa Capetillo Anarchy and Boricua | 52 |
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