Mainland Passage : The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico /

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One-third of the population of Puerto Rico moved to New York City during the mid-twentieth century. Since this massive migration, Puerto Rican literature and culture have grappled with an essential change in self-perception. Mainland Passage examines the history of that transformation, the political...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soto-Crespo, Ramón E.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Puerto Rican literature.
Politics and literature.
National characteristics, Puerto Rican, in literature.
Literature and history.
Literature.
Emigration and immigration in literature.
Emigration and immigration.
Civilization.
Puerto Ricans in literature.
HISTORY > United States > General.
LITERARY CRITICISM > European > Spanish & Portuguese.
Politique et litterature > Porto Rico > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Litterature et histoire > Porto Rico.
Portoricains dans la litterature.
Émigration et immigration dans la litterature.
Politics and literature > Puerto Rico > History > 20th century.
Literature and history > Puerto Rico.
Puerto Rican literature > 20th century > History and criticism.
Puerto Rico.
Porto Rico > Émigration et immigration > Histoire > 20e siecle.
Porto Rico > Dans la litterature.
Puerto Rico > Civilization > 20th century.
Puerto Rico > Emigration and immigration > History > 20th century.
Puerto Rico > In literature.
History.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic book.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: neither colony nor nation
  • State and artifice: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá and Puerto Rican painting
  • The mainland passage: Luis Muñoz Marín's borderland state
  • Escaping colonialism: how to do things with American imperialism
  • Out of the mainland: Nuyorican poetry and Boricua politics.

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