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Title Writing off the hyphen : new critical perspectives on the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora / edited by José L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen Haydée Rivera.

Publication Info. Seattle : University of Washington Press, [2008]
©2008

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 Moore Stacks  PS153.P83 W75 2008    Available  ---
Description xii, 361 pages ; 23 cm.
Series American ethnic and cultural studies
American ethnic and cultural studies.
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 Puertorriquen̋idad / 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 Quin̋onez'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.
American literature -- Puerto Rican authors.
Puerto Ricans -- United States -- Intellectual life.
Puerto Ricans.
United States.
Intellectual life.
Puerto Rican literature -- History and criticism.
Puerto Rican literature.
Puerto Ricans in literature.
Puerto Ricans in literature.
Added Author Torres-Padilla, José L.
Rivera, Carmen Haydée.
ISBN 9780295988139 alkaline paper
0295988134 alkaline paper
029598824X paperback
9780295988245 paperback