Writing off the hyphen : new critical perspectives on the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora
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. 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. -- Publisher description
Print Book, English, ©2008
University of Washington Press, Seattle, ©2008
Criticism, interpretation, etc
xii, 361 pages ; 23 cm.
9780295988139, 9780295988245, 0295988134, 029598824X
173748969
AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: The Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora and Its Critical Practice / Jose L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen Haydee RiveraPART I: Earlier Voices1. Evolving Identities: Early Puerto Rican Writing in the United States and the Search for New Puertorriquenidad / Jose M. Irizarry Rodriguez2. For the Sake of Love: Luisa Capetillo, Anarchy, and Boricua Literary History / Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez3. When "I" Became Ethnic: Ethnogenesis and Three Early Puerto Rican Diaspora Writers / Jose L. Torres-PadillaPART II: Political and Historical4. Anarchism in the Work of Aurora Levins Morales / Ferda Asya5. Puerto Rican Literature in a New Clave: Notes on the Emergence of DiaspoRican / William Burgos6. The Political Left and the Development of Nuyorican Poetry / Trenton HickmanPART III: Identity and Place7. Literary Tropicalizations of the Barrio: Ernesto Quinonez's Bodega Dreams and Ed Vega's Mendoza's Dreams / Antonia Dominguez Miguela8. Discordant Differences: Strategic Puerto Ricanness in Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican Obituary / Victor Figueroa9. "Borinkee" in Hawai'i: Rodney Morales Rides the Diaspora Wave to Transregional Imperial Struggle / Maritza Stanchich10: Tato Laviera's Parody of La carreta: Reworking a Tradition of Docility / John WaldronPART IV: Home11. Writing Home: Mapping Puerto Rican Collective Memory in The House on the Lagoon / Kelli Lyon Johnson12. Translating "Home" in the Work of Judith Ortez Cofer / Joanna Barszewska Marshall13. Getting There and Back: The Road, the Journey, and Home in Nuyorican Diaspora Literature / Solimar OteroPART V: Gender14. Identity of the "Diasporican" Homosexual in the Literary Periphery / Enrique Morales- Diaz 15. Manuel Ramos Otero's Queer Metafictional Resurrection of Julia de Burgos / Betsy A. Sandlin16. Subverting the Mainland: Transmigratory Biculturalism in U.S. Puerto Rican Women's Fiction / Mary Jane Suero-ElliottContributorsIndex
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