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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... poetry's prolonged interconnection with the political Left has forced the evolution of Nuyorican poetry into its next incarnation of artistic iden- tity.1 Poetry and the Puerto Rican Social Clubs of New York City In 1970 , Federico ...
... poets felt their leftist politics to be inseparable from the immediacy of their poetry . Even in moments when this commitment to leftist politics was not worn on the sleeve , the very attire of these poets allied them with the political ...
... poetry that is " the all - new Gregorian chant . " Yes , Sekou Sundiata is mentioned later in Algarín's essay , but ... poetry even being featured in a series of spoken - word poetry shows by what is arguably the most important huckster ...
Contents
Earlier Voices | 16 |
Early Puerto Rican Writing in the United | 31 |
Luisa Capetillo Anarchy and Boricua | 52 |
Copyright | |
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