Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora
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| Rating | : | 4.59 (733 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0814731473 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 256 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-05-14 |
| Language | : | English |
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Highly recommended."-Choice. "Lisa Sanchez Gonzalez's Boricua Literature is the first literary history of the Puerto Rican colonial diaspora, but it is also much more."-American Literature"Sanchez Gonzalez's provacative study Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora intensely focuses on a geographically and culturally specific literary evolution by Puerto Ricans who emigrated to the east coastof the United States, a movement spanning most of the 20th century."—Centro Journal -"Sanchez-Gonzales presents a panorama of the writing produced by Puerto Rican Americans over the last 100 years
She also produces community-based news and public affairs programs for public radio.. Lisa Sánchez González is assistant professor English at the University of Texas at Austin
Kamran Afary said Raw and Cooked!. Like its provocative cover --Basquiat's "Arroz con Pollo"-- this book is a rare combination of "the raw" and "the cooked." It navigates a treacherous and booby-trapped passage through the entire "Raw and Cooked!" according to Kamran Afary. Like its provocative cover --Basquiat's "Arroz con Pollo"-- this book is a rare combination of "the raw" and "the cooked." It navigates a treacherous and booby-trapped passage through the entire 20th century to the birth of a distinct Boricuan literary traditio. 0th century to the birth of a distinct Boricuan literary traditio. "Five Stars" according to Maya G.. Nice.
Over a third of this population currently lives in the continental U.S. The story of an American community of color, Boricua Literature is also about contemporary critical race and gender studies.Unlike virtually all studies concerning mainland Puerto Rican writing, Lisa Sánchez González is less concerned with "cultural identity" than with unearthing a substantive cultural intellectual history. Since the invasion and colonization of Puerto Rico in 1898, all Puerto Ricans are both American citizens and colonial subjects by birth according to international law. Boricua Literature is the first literary history of the Puerto Rican colonial diaspora.The result of a decade of research in archives and special collections in the Caribbean and in the U.S., Lisa Sánchez González argues that the writing of the Puerto Rican diaspora should be considered an integral field of study. forming one of the nation's most