Mainland passage : the cultural anomaly of Puerto Rico / Ramon E. Soto-Crespo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Soto-Crespo, Ramón E.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Puerto Rican literature--20th century--History and criticism.

Puerto Rican literature.

Emigration and immigration in literature.

National characteristics, Puerto Rican, in literature.

Literature and history--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Literature and history.

Politics and literature--Puerto Rico--History--20th century.

Politics and literature.

Puerto Rico--In literature.

Puerto Rico.

Puerto Rico--Emigration and immigration--History--20th century.

Puerto Rico--Civilization--20th century.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (195 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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 struggle over its representation, and the ways it has been imagined in Puerto Rico and in the work of Latina/o fiction writers.Ramón E. Soto-Crespo argues that the most significant consequence of this migration is the creation of a cultural and political borderland state. He intervenes in the Puert

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.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8166-6814-0

OCLC:

505996307