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xii, 361 pages ; 23 cm. |
Series |
American ethnic and cultural studies |
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American ethnic and cultural studies.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Introduction, Literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora and its critical practice / José L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen Haydée Rivera -- Evolving indentities : early Puerto Rican writing in the United States and the search for a new Puertorrique̋nidad / José M. Irizarry Rodríguez -- For the sake of love : Luisa Capetillo, anarchy, and Boricua literary history / Lisa Sánchez González -- When "I" became ethnic : ethnogenesis and three early Puerto Rican diaspora writers / José L. Torres-Padilla -- Anarchism in the work of Aurora Levins Morales / Ferdâ Asya -- Puerto Rican literature in a new clave : notes on the emergence of DiaspoRican / William Burgos -- Political left and the development of Nuyorican poetry / Trenton Hickman -- Literary tropicalizations of the barrio : Ernesto Qui̋nonez's Bodega Dreams and Ed Vega's Mendoza's Dreams / Antonia Domínguez Miguela -- Discordant differences : strategic Puerto Ricanness in Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican obituary / Víctor Figueroa -- "Borinkee" in Hawai'i : Rodney Morales rides the diaspora wave to transregional imperial struggle / Maritza Stanchich -- Tato Laviera's parody of La carreta : reworking a tradition of docility / John Waldron -- Writing home : mapping Puerto Rican collective memory in The House on the Lagoon / Kelli Lyon Johnson -- Translating "Home" in the work of Judith Ortiz Cofer / Joanna Barszewska Marshall -- Getting there and back : the road, the journey, and home in Nuyorican diaspora literature / Solimar Otero -- Identity of the "Diasporican" homosexual in the literary periphery / Enrique Morales-Díaz -- Manuel Ramos Otero's queer metafictional resurrection of Julia de Burgos / Betsy A. Sandlin -- Subverting the mainland : transmigratory biculturalism in U.S. Puerto Rican women's fiction / Mary Jane Suero-Elliott. |
Subject |
American literature -- Puerto Rican authors -- History and criticism.
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Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Intellectual life.
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Puerto Rican literature -- History and criticism.
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Puerto Ricans in literature.
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Added Author |
Torres-Padilla, José L.
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Rivera, Carmen Haydée.
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ISBN |
9780295988139 alkaline paper |
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0295988134 alkaline paper |
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029598824X paperback |
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9780295988245 paperback |
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