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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... perspectives. These patterns shed light not only on years of political, social, and economic ties between the island and the United States but also on the ways in which, historically, these relationships have complicated notions of ...
New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Jose L. Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydee Rivera. An appropriate starting point for the examination of Puerto Rican migration is Clara Rodríguez's insightful ...
New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Jose L. Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydee Rivera. ferent from ... perspective and lifestyle within a multicultural society. His work is an indictment of the era's racism ...
New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Jose L. Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydee Rivera ... perspective, which started to change only sometime in the forties and fifties when newspapers such as La Defensa ...
New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora Jose L. Torres-Padilla, Carmen Haydee Rivera ... perspective, for the incorporation of diaspora literature into the Puerto Rican literary canon as part of its ...
Contents
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Political and Historical | 105 |
Identity and Place | 163 |
Home | 237 |
Gender | 293 |
Contributors | 351 |
Index | 355 |