Writing Off the Hyphen: New Critical Perspectives on the Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora

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-----------------------------------------------------Acknowledgments xi Introduction: The Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora and Its Critical Practice 1 JOSÉ L. TORRES-PADILLA AND CARMEN HAYDÉE RIVERA PART I Earlier Voices 1 Evolving Identities: Early Puerto Rican Writing in the United States and the Search for a New Puertorriqueñidad 31 JOSÉ M. IRIZARRY RODRÍGUEZ 2 For the Sake of Love: Luisa Capetillo, Anarchy, and Boricua Literary History 52 LISA M. SÁNCHEZ GONZÁLEZ 3 When “I” Became Ethnic: Ethnogenesis and Three Early Puerto Rican Diaspora Writers 81 JOSÉ L. TORRES-PADILLA CONTENTS JOSÉ L. TORRES -PADILLA AND C ARMEN HAYDÉE RIVER A PART I JOSÉ M. IRIZARRY RODRÍGUEZ LISA SÁNCHEZ GONZÁLEZ JOSÉ L. TORRES -PADILLA PART II Political and Historical 4 Anarchism in the Work of Aurora Levins Morales 107 FERDÂ ASYA 5 Puerto Rican Literature in a New Clave: Notes on the Emergence of DiaspoRican 125 WILLIAM BURGOS 6 The Political Left and the Development of Nuyorican Poetry 143 TRENTON HICKMAN PART III Identity and Place 7 Literary Tropicalizations of the Barrio: Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Dreams and Ed Vega’s Mendoza’s Dreams 165 ANTONIA DOMÍNGUEZ MIGUELA 8 Discordant Differences: Strategic Puerto Ricanness in Pedro Pietri’s Puerto Rican Obituary 184 VÍCTOR FIGUEROA 9 “Borinkee” in Hawai‘i: Rodney Morales Rides the Diaspora Wave to Transregional Imperial Struggle 201 MARITZA STANCHICH 10 Tato Laviera’s Parody of La carreta: Reworking a Tradition of Docility 221 JOHN WALDRON PART III WILLIAM BURGOS FERDÂ ASYA PART II VÍC TOR FIGUEROA MARITZA STANCHICH JOHN WALDRON ANTONIA DOMÍNGUEZ MIGUELA TRENTON HICKMAN PART IV Home 11 Writing Home: Mapping Puerto Rican Collective Memory in The House on the Lagoon 239 KELLI LYON JOHNSON 12 Translating “Home” in the Work of Judith Ortiz Cofer 256 JOANNA BARSZEWSKA MARSHALL 13 Getting There and Back: The Road, the Journey, and Home in Nuyorican Diaspora Literature 274 SOLIMAR OTERO PART V Gender 14 Identity of the “Diasporican” Homosexual in the Literary Periphery 295 ENRIQUE MORALES-DÍAZ 15 Manuel Ramos Otero’s Queer Metafictional Resurrection of Julia de Burgos 313 BETSY A. SANDLIN 16 Subverting the Mainland: Transmigratory Biculturalism in U.S. Puerto Rican Women’s Fiction 332 MARY JANE SUERO-ELLIOTT Contributors 351 Index 355 KELLI LYON JOHNSON PART IV JOANNA BARSZE WSK A MARSHALL SOLIMAR OTERO PART V ENRIQUE MOR ALES -DÍAZ BE TSY A. SANDLIN MARY JANE SUERO -ELLIOT T ...