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Book SynopsisContains sixteen essays which approach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora with insightful results. This book analyzes 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 post-colonialism and post-modernism come into play.
Trade Review"Writing Off the Hyphen offers depth and insight on the theory and critical approaches for understanding the complexity of the Puerto Rican diaspora from a broad range of perspectives. It covers a variety of topics and serves as a starting point for critical discussions on Puerto Rican literature from a historical and literary standpoint. This volume belongs in all academic library collections. It is a key resource for Puerto Rican literature and culture courses, and for understanding Puerto Rican diasporic literature."
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: The Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora and Its Critical Practice / Jose L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen Haydee Rivera
PART I: Earlier Voices
1. Evolving Identities: Early Puerto Rican Writing in the United States and the Search for New Puertorriquenidad / Jose M. Irizarry Rodriguez
2. For the Sake of Love: Luisa Capetillo, Anarchy, and Boricua Literary History / Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez
3. When "I" Became Ethnic: Ethnogenesis and Three Early Puerto Rican Diaspora Writers / Jose L. Torres-Padilla
PART II: Political and Historical
4. Anarchism in the Work of Aurora Levins Morales / Ferda Asya
5. Puerto Rican Literature in a New Clave: Notes on the Emergence of DiaspoRican / William Burgos
6. The Political Left and the Development of Nuyorican Poetry / Trenton Hickman
PART III: Identity and Place
7. Literary Tropicalizations of the Barrio: Ernesto Quinonez's Bodega Dreams and Ed Vega's Mendoza's Dreams / Antonia Dominguez Miguela
8. Discordant Differences: Strategic Puerto Ricanness in Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican Obituary / Victor Figueroa
9. "Borinkee" in Hawai'i: Rodney Morales Rides the Diaspora Wave to Transregional Imperial Struggle / Maritza Stanchich
10: Tato Laviera's Parody of La carreta: Reworking a Tradition of Docility / John Waldron
PART IV: Home
11. Writing Home: Mapping Puerto Rican Collective Memory in The House on the Lagoon / Kelli Lyon Johnson
12. Translating "Home" in the Work of Judith Ortez Cofer / Joanna Barszewska Marshall
13. Getting There and Back: The Road, the Journey, and Home in Nuyorican Diaspora Literature / Solimar Otero
PART V: Gender
14. 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. Sandlin
16. Subverting the Mainland: Transmigratory Biculturalism in U.S. Puerto Rican Women's Fiction / Mary Jane Suero-Elliott
Contributors
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