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

• Pubblicazione: Seattle, : University of Washington Press, c2008
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (377 p.)
• Disciplina: 810.997295
• Soggetto topico: American literature - Puerto Rican authors - History and criticism; Puerto Ricans - United States - Intellectual life; Puerto Rican literature - History and criticism; Puerto Ricans in literature
• Altri autori: Torres-PadillaJosé L RiveraCarmen Haydée
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: ""Contents ""; ""Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction: The Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora and Its Critical Practice""; ""Part I: Earlier Voices ""; ""1. Evolving Identities: Early Puerto Rican Writing in the United States and the Search for a New Puertorriqueñidad""; ""2. For the Sake of Love: Luisa Capetillo, Anarchy, and Boricua Literary History""; ""3. When "I" Became Ethnic: Ethnogenesis and Three Early Puerto Rican Diaspora Writers""; ""Part II: Political and Historical ""; ""4. Anarchism in the Work of Aurora Levins Morales"" ; ""5. Puerto Rican Literature in a New Clave: Notes on the Emergence of DiaspoRican""""6. The Political Left and the Development of Nuyorican Poetry""; ""Part III: Identity and Place ""; ""7. Literary Tropicalizations of the Barrio: Ernesto Quiñonez's Bodega Dreams and Ed Vega's Mendoza's Dreams""; ""8. Discordant Differences: Strategic Puerto Ricanness in Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican Obituary""; ""9. "Borinkee" in Hawai'i: Rodney Morales Rides the Diaspora Wave to Transregional Imperial Struggle""; ""10. Tato Laviera's Parody of La carreta: Reworking a Tradition of Docility"" ; ""Part IV: Home """"11. Writing Home: Mapping Puerto Rican Collective Memory in The House on the Lagoon""; ""12. Translating "Home" in the Work of Judith Ortiz Cofer""; ""13. Getting There and Back: The Road, the Journey, and Home in Nuyorican Diaspora Literature""; ""Part V: Gender ""; ""14. Identity of the "Diasporican" Homosexual in the Literary Periphery""; ""15. Manuel Ramos Otero's Queer Metafictional Resurrection of Julia de Burgos""; ""16. Subverting the Mainland: Transmigratory Biculturalismin U.S. Puerto Rican Women's Fiction""; ""Contributors""; ""Index""
• Titolo autorizzato: Writing off the hyphen
• ISBN: 0-295-80016-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910781566803321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: American ethnic and cultural studies.