Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS vii
3. ACKNOWLEDGMENTS xi
4. INTRODUCTION The Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora and Its Critical Practice 1
5. PART I Earlier Voices
6. 1 EVOLVING IDENTITIES Early Puerto Rican Writing in the United States and the Search for a New Puertorriqueñidad 31
7. 2 FOR THE SAKE OF LOVE Luisa Capetillo, Anarchy, and Boricua Literary History 52
8. 3 WHEN “ I ” BECAME ETHNIC Ethnogenesis and Three Early Puerto Rican Diaspora Writers 81
9. PART II Political and Historical
10. 4 ANARCHISM IN THE WORK OF AURORA LEVINS MORALES 107
11. 5 PUERTO RICAN LITERATURE IN A NEW CLAVE Notes on the Emergence of DiaspoRican 125
12. 6 THE POLITICAL LEFT AND THE DEVELOPMENT OF NUYORICAN POETRY 143
13. PART III Identity and Place
14. 7 LITERARY TROPICALIZATIONS OF THE BARRIO Ernesto Quiñonez’s Bodega Dreams and Ed Vega’s Mendoza’s Dreams 165
15. 8 DISCORDANT DIFFERENCES Strategic Puerto Ricanness in Pedro Pietri’s Puerto Rican Obituary 184
16. 9 “BORINKEE” IN HAWAI‘ I Rodney Morales Rides the Diaspora Wave to Transregional Imperial Struggle 201
17. 10 TATO LAVIERA’S PARODY OF LA CARRETA Reworking a Tradition of Docility 221
18. PART IV Home
19. 11 WRITING HOME Mapping Puerto Rican Collective Memory in The House on the Lagoon 239
20. 12 TRANSLATING “HOME” I N THE WORK OF JUDITH ORTIZ COFER 256
21. 13 GETTING THERE AND BACK The Road, the Journey, and Home in Nuyorican Diaspora Literature 274
22. PART V Gender
23. 14 IDENTITY OF THE “DIASPORICAN” HOMOSEXUAL IN THE LITERARY PERIPHERY 295
24. 15 MANUEL RAMOS OTERO’S QUEER METAFICTIONAL RESURRECTION OF JULIA DE BURGOS 313
25. 16 SUBVERTING THE MAINLAND Transmigratory Biculturalism in U.S. Puerto Rican Women’s Fiction 332
26. CONTRIBUTORS 351
27. INDEX 355