Images and Identities
Subtitle: Puerto Rican in Two World Contexts
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Taylor and Francis
Published: 2017
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 288
ISBN-13: 9780203789148
Subjects: Puerto Rican literature; Congresses; American literature; Puerto Rican authors; Puerto Ricans in literature; Littérature portoricaine; Congrès; Portoricains dans la littérature
Description: "First published in 1987. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis."--Provided by publisher
Table of contents: title: Chapter Introduction; title: part Part I: Image and Identities; title: chapter 1 A Puerto Rican Testament; title: chapter 2 The Flying Bus; title: chapter 3 The Islander; title: chapter 4 Images in Contemporary Puerto Rican Literature; title: chapter 5 Puertorriqueñidad: The Force Behind the Development of a Puerto Rican Theater; title: chapter 6 Image of the City: Three Puerto Rican Generations in New York; title: chapter 7 The Puerto Rican in Popular U.S. Literature: A Culturalist Perspective; title: chapter 8 Survival, Growth, and Change in the Prose Fiction of Contemporary Puerto Rican Women Writers; title: chapter 9 Salpicar and the Specter of Self-Hate among Puerto Ricans: On the Testimonial Literature of Modernization and Ethnicity; title: chapter 10 Image: The Puerto Rican in Hawaii; title: part Part II: Authors' Voices; title: chapter 11 Women's Tales; title: chapter 12 At the Middle of the Road; title: chapter 13 The Two Lived-In Houses; title: chapter 14 Dope Themes and Other Highs; title: chapter 15 Juan Antonio Ramos: A Feminist Writer?; title: part Part III: Puerto Rican Literature Writte in English; title: chapter 16 A Neorican in Puerto Rico Or Coming Home; title: chapter 17 Puerto Ricans in New York: Cultural Evolution and Identity; title: chapter 18 Nuyorican Aesthetics; title: chapter 19 Ambivalence or Activism from the Nuyorican Perspective in Poetry; title: chapter 20 The Feminist Viewpoint in the Poetry of Puerto Rican Women in the United States; title: part Part IV: Translations; title: chapter 21 This Uncanny, Tricky Business: Translation and Ideology in Puerto Rican Literature; title: chapter 22 Is Macho Camacho's Beat a Good Translation of La guaracha del Macho Camacho; title: part Part V: Puerto Rican Literature in the Public School Curriculum; title: chapter 23 Image and Identity: Puerto Rican Literature in the School Curriculum; title: chapter 24 Self-Affirmation or Self-Destruction: The Image of Puerto Ricans in Children's Literature Written in English; title: part Part VI: Interrelations between Puerto Rican Literature and Other Hispanic Literatures in the United States; title: chapter 25 A Question of Identity: What's in a Name? Chicanos and Riquenos; title: chapter 26 Toward a History of Hispanic Literature in the United States; title: chapter 27 Cross-Currents in Hispanic U.S. Contemporary Drama; title: chapter 28 Geographic Displacement as Spiritual Desolation in Puerto Rican and Chicano Prose Fiction.