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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.

Publisher:

University of Washington Press,

Copyright Date:

c2008

Description:

xii, 361 p. ; 23 cm.

Subject:

American literature--History and criticism.--History and criticism.
Puerto Ricans--United States--Intellectual life.
Puerto Rican literature--History and criticism.
Puerto Ricans in literature.

Other Authors:

Torres-Padilla, José L.
Rivera, Carmen Haydée.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Introduction, Subverting the mainland : transmigratory biculturalism in U.S. Puerto Rican women's fiction / Mary Jane Suero-Elliott. 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 DiasporaRican / 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 / Victor 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-Diaz -- 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.

Series:

American ethnic and cultural studies

ISBN:

9780295988245 (pbk.)
029598824X (pbk.)
0295988134 (alk. paper)
9780295988139 (alk. paper)

LCCN:

2007040823

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

SOAX911 -- Simpson College - Dunn Library (Indianola)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)