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Informationen zum Autor Edited by Jose L. Torres-Padilla and Carmen Haydee Rivera Klappentext 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. Prominent writers such as Rosario Ferr and Judith Ortiz Cofer are discussed alongside often-neglected writers such as Honolulu-based Rodney Morales and gay writer Manuel Ramos Otero. Jos Torres-Padilla is associate professor of English, State University of New York at Plattsburgh. Carmen Haydee Rivera is associate professor of English, University of Puerto Rico. Zusammenfassung Contains sixteen essays which approach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora from theoretical positions 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments 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 Index ...
