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Writing Off the Hyphen
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 considerab...
The Latino Reader
"The Latino Reader" presents the full history of this important American literary tradition, from its mid-sixteenth-century beginnings to the present day. The wide-ranging selections include works of history, memoir, letters, and essays, as well as fiction, poetry, and drama.
God Returns to the Vuelta Abajo
Excerpt from God Returns to the Vuelta Abajo: A Tale of the Cuban Vega IT was the latter part of Augus planters of Old Horseshoe, in Vuelta Abajo, were making seed beds. At the Sumidero, old Bernardo's vega, the men were down in the tumba, or clearing, some of them turn ing up long' narrow beds in the mellow soil, and others burning off more land in preparation. The girl, Paula, coming: out of the palm-thatched cottage on the'hill above'witha a tin of coffee for the workers, inhaled the pungent odor of smoke with delight. It meant planting time, and that is always the Spring of hope to far, m dwell ers. One forgets that it frequently pleases Heaven to send failure, and one remembers the happ...
Dance Between Two Cultures
Offers insights on Latino Caribbean writers born or raised in the United States who are at the vanguard of a literary movement that has captured both critical and popular interest. In this groundbreaking study, William Luis analyzes the most salient and representative narrative and poetic works of the newest literary movement to emerge in Spanish American and U.S. literatures. The book is divided into three sections, each focused on representative Puerto Rican American, Cuban American, and Dominican American authors. Luis traces the writers' origins and influences from the nineteenth century to the present, focusing especially on the contemporary works of Oscar Hijuelos, Julia Alvarez, Crist...
