Divided Borders : Essays on Puerto Rican Identity

Divided Borders : Essays on Puerto Rican Identity

  • Author: Flores, Juan
  • Publisher: Arte Público Press
  • ISBN: 9781558850460
  • eISBN Pdf: 9781518501593
  • Place of publication:  Houston , United States
  • Year of publication: 2017
  • Pages: 352

Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity is a collection of essays on history, literature and culture by the celebrated commentator on Puerto Rican and Caribbean culture in the United States, Juan Flores. He is the recipient of the prestigious Casa de las Americas award for his monograph on Puerto Rican identity. Included are: “Puerto Rican Literature in the United States: Stages and Perspectives,” “The Insular Vision: Pedreira and the Puerto Rican Misere,” “National Culture and Migration: Perspectives of the Puerto Rican Working Class,” “Living Borders / Buscando America: Languages of Latino Self Formation” and many others.

  • Cover
  • Title page
  • Copyright page
  • Contents
  • Author's Note
  • Introduction by Jean Franco
  • I
    • The Insular Vision: Pedreira and the Puerto Rican Misère
  • II
    • The Puerto Rico that José Luis González Built
    • Refiguring La Charca
    • "Bumbún" and the Beginnings of Plena Music
    • Cortijo's Revenge: New Mappings of Puerto Rican Culture
  • III
    • National Culture and Migration: Perspectives from the Puerto Rican Working Class (with Ricardo Campos)
    • Puerto Rican Literature in the United States: Stages and Perspectives
  • IV
    • La Carreta Made a U-Turn: Puerto Rican Language and Culture in the United States (with John Attinasi and Pedro Pedraza)
    • "Qué assimilated, brother, yo soy asimilao": The Structuring of Puerto Rican Identity
  • V
    • Living Borders / Buscando América: Languages of Latino Self-Formation (with George Yúdice)
  • Notes

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