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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. 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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  1. Cover
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  1. Frontmatter
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  1. Contents
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  1. Acknowledgments
  2. pp. xi-xii
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  1. Introduction: The Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora and Its Critical Practice
  2. pp. 1-28
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  1. Part I: Earlier Voices
  1. 1. Evolving Identities: Early Puerto Rican Writing in the United States and the Search for a New Puertorrique
  2. pp. 31-51
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  1. 2. For the Sake of Love: Luisa Capetillo, Anarchy, and Boricua Literary History
  2. pp. 52-80
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  1. 3. When “I” Became Ethnic: Ethnogenesis and Three Early Puerto Rican Diaspora Writers
  2. pp. 81-104
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  1. Part II: Political and Historical
  1. 4. Anarchism in the Work of Aurora Levins Morales
  2. pp. 107-124
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  1. 5. Puerto Rican Literature in a New Clave: Notes on the Emergence of DiaspoRican
  2. pp. 125-142
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  1. 6. The Political Left and the Development of Nuyorican Poetry
  2. pp. 143-161
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  1. Part III: Identity and Place
  1. 7. Literary Tropicalizations of the Barrio: Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Dreams and Ed Vega’s Mendoza’s Dreams
  2. pp. 165-183
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  1. 8. Discordant Differences: Strategic Puerto Ricanness in Pedro Pietri’s Puerto Rican Obituary
  2. pp. 184-200
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  1. 9. “Borinkee” in Hawai‘i: Rodney Morales Rides the Diaspora Wave to Transregional Imperial Struggle
  2. pp. 201-220
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  1. 10. Tato Laviera’s Parody of La carreta: Reworking a Tradition of Docility
  2. pp. 221-236
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  1. Part IV: Home
  1. 11. Writing Home: Mapping Puerto Rican Collective Memory in The House on the Lagoon
  2. pp. 239-255
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  1. 12. Translating “Home” in the Work of Judith Ortiz Cofer
  2. pp. 256-273
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  1. 13. Getting There and Back: The Road, the Journey, and Homein Nuyorican Diaspora Literature
  2. pp. 274-292
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  1. Part V: Gender
  1. 14. Identity of the “Diasporican” Homosexual in the Literary Periphery
  2. pp. 295-312
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  1. 15. Manuel Ramos Otero’s Queer Metafictional Resurrection of Julia de Burgos
  2. pp. 313-331
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  1. 16. Subverting the Mainland: Transmigratory Biculturalismin U.S. Puerto Rican Women’s Fiction
  2. pp. 332-349
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  1. Contributors
  2. pp. 351-354
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  1. Index
  2. pp. 355-361
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