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Family Matters
Adopting a comparative and multidisciplinary approach to Puerto Rican literature, Marisel Moreno juxtaposes narratives by insular and U.S. Puerto Rican women authors in order to examine their convergences and divergences. By showing how these writers use the trope of family to question the tenets of racial and social harmony, an idealized past, and patriarchal authority that sustain the foundational myth ofla gran familia,she argues that this metaphor constitutes an overlooked literary contact zone between narratives from both sides. Moreno proposes the recognition of a \"transinsular\" corpus to reflect the increasingly transnational character of the Puerto Rican population and addresses the need to broaden the literary canon in order to include the diaspora. Drawing on the fields of historiography, cultural studies, and gender studies, the author defies the tendency to examine these literary bodies independently of one another and therefore aims to present a more nuanced and holistic vision of this literature.
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Men of the 65th : the Borinqueneers of the Korean War
\"Learn about Puerto Rico's 65th Regiment, one of the US Army's most decorated regiments. Author Talia Aikens-Nuñez shares the history of these soldiers and the discrimination they faced as they served their country during the largest court martial of the Korean War\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Writing Off the Hyphen
The sixteen essays inWriting Off the Hyphenapproach the literature of the Puerto Rican diaspora from current theoretical positions, with provocative and insightful results. The authors analyze 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 postcolonialism and postmodernism come into play. Their critical work also demonstrates an understanding of how the process of migration and the relations between Puerto Rico and the United States complicate notions of cultural and national identity as writers confront their bilingual, bicultural, and transnational realities.
The collection has considerable breadth and depth. It covers earlier, undertheorized writers such as Luisa Capetillo, Pedro Juan Labarthe, Bernardo Vega, Pura Belpré, Arturo Schomburg, and Graciany Miranda Archilla. Prominent writers such as Rosario Ferré and Judith Ortiz Cofer are discussed alongside often-neglected writers such as Honolulu-based Rodney Morales and gay writer Manuel Ramos Otero. The essays cover all the genres and demonstrate that current theoretical ideas and approaches create exciting opportunities and possibilities for the study of Puerto Rican diasporic literature.
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Dream Nation
Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new bookDream Nation, María Acosta Cruz investigates the roots and effects of this profound disconnect between cultural fantasy and political reality.Bringing together texts from Puerto Rican literature, history, and popular culture,Dream Nationshows how imaginings of national independence have served many competing purposes. They have given authority to the island's literary and artistic establishment but have also been a badge of countercultural cool. These ideas have been fueled both by nostalgia for an imagined past and by yearning for a better future. They have fostered local communities on the island, and still helped define Puerto Rican identity within U.S. Latino culture.In clear, accessible prose, Acosta Cruz takes us on a journey from the 1898 annexation of Puerto Rico to the elections of 2012, stopping at many cultural touchstones along the way, from the canonical literature of theGeneración del 30to the rap music of Tego Calderón.Dream Nationthus serves both as a testament to how stories, symbols, and heroes of independence have inspired the Puerto Rican imagination and as an urgent warning about how this culture has become detached from the everyday concerns of the island's people.A volume in the American Literature Initiatives series
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Mainland Passage
One-third of the population of Puerto Rico moved to New York City during the mid-twentieth century. Since this massive migration, Puerto Rican literature and culture have grappled with an essential change in self-perception. Mainland Passage examines the history of that transformation, the political struggle over its representation, and the ways it has been imagined in Puerto Rico and in the work of Latina/o fiction writers.
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Cuba and Puerto Rico
The intertwined stories of two archipelagos and their
diasporas
This volume is the first systematic comparative study of Cuba
and Puerto Rico from both a historical and contemporary
perspective. In these essays, contributors highlight the
interconnectedness of the two archipelagos in social categories
such as nation, race, class, and gender to encourage a more nuanced
and multifaceted study of the relationships between the islands and
their diasporas.
Topics range from historical and anthropological perspectives on
Cuba and Puerto Rico before and during the Cold War to cultural and
sociological studies of diasporic communities in the United States.
The volume features analyses of political coalitions, the formation
of interisland sororities, and environmental issues. Along with
sharing a similar early history, Cuba and Puerto Rico have closely
intertwined cultures, including their linguistic, literary, food,
musical, and religious practices. Contributors also discuss
literature by Cuban and Puerto Rican authors by examining the
aesthetics of literary techniques and discourses, the
representation of psychological space on the stage, and the impacts
of migration.
Showing how the trajectories of both archipelagos have been
linked together for centuries and how they have diverged recently,
Cuba and Puerto Rico offers a transdisciplinary approach
to the study of this intricate relationship and the formation of
diasporic communities and continuities.
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining
the Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the
National Endowment for the Humanities.
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Para Romper con el Insularismo
Para romper con el insularismo que ha venido caracterizando la literatura puertorriqueña nueve destacados especialistas proponen estudios desde una perspectiva comparatista. Quíntuples de Luis Rafael Sánchez entra en diálogo con The Last Carnival de Derek Walcott. Los planteamientos (afro)antillanos de Palés Matos son revisitados en relación con los de Guillén. Los ensayos de José Luis González son puestos en relación con el ideario del pensador dominicano Silvio Torres-Saillant. El cuento 'Cuatro selecciones por una peseta' de Ana Lydia Vega y Carmen Lugo Filippi engendra reflexiones sobre clichés caribeños al cotejarlo con 'Vellonera de sueños' del dominicano Luis Martín Gómez. Un ensayo de Juan Bosch sobre Emilio Belaval arroja otra luz sobre ambos escritores. Pero los interlocutores no provienen únicamente del área caribeña. Sol de medianoche de Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá es relacionado con 'Deutsches Requiem' de Borges y sus crónicas suscitan ecos desde Chile con Lemebel. El laberinto de la soledad de Octavio Paz es acercado a los ensayos de Emilio Belaval. Hasta se tienden puentes entre el bertso vasco y la décima puertorriqueña. Estas aproximaciones innovadoras amplían el contexto cultural e intelectual de las letras puertorriqueñas.
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