Bird-Soto Dissident Spirits

The Post-Insular Imprint in Puerto Rican/Diasporic Literature
1. Auflage 2018
ISBN: 978-1-4331-5072-2
Verlag: Peter Lang
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 128 Seiten

This book explores the post-insular imprint in Puerto Rican letters through a sample of authors from the island and the diaspora. From a canonical figure like Alejandro Tapia to the post-Nuyorican poet Víctor Hernández Cruz, and from the working-class feminism of Luisa Capetillo and Franca de Armiño to Virginia Sánchez Korrol’s narrative homage to the legacy of Emilia Casanova, trends such as dissidence and migration are core to the understanding of the Puerto Rican and its diasporic experiences. In Tapia’s case, his Póstumo saga offers a transmigrated subject who questions the gender binary. Regarding Capetillo and Armiño, a sample of their plays shows not only a global awareness, but also the intersection between class and gender issues to challenge patriarchal constraints. A related intersection, the one between gender and racial matters, is key in Casanova’s understanding of freedom and the pan-Antillean consciousness that Boricua historian Sánchez Korrol underscores in her novel about the Cuban activist. To conclude this examination of the post-insular imprint in works by authors in diverse canons and working in different genres, the closing chapter is dedicated to Hernández Cruz’s poetry as an unequivocal celebration of the migratory experience of the Caribbean. These writers, thus, emerge as migrants of the word in a spirit of dissidence against colonialist notions of Puerto Rico, its diaspora, and the Caribbean.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bird-Soto, Nancy I.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Lateinamerikanische Literaturen, Spanische Literatur außerhalb Europas

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments – Introduction: Dissident Spirts and the Case for the Post-Insular – Spirits of Dissidence: Alejandro Tapia y Rivera’s Póstumo el transmigrado and Póstumo envirginiado – Whimsical Women: Gender and Labor in the Plays of Luisa Capetillo and Franca de Armino – “All in the Name of Liberation:” Feminist and Abolitionist: The Story of Emilia Casanova – A Poetic Manifesto for the Caribbean: Victor Hernandez Cruz’s In the Shadow of Al-Andalus – Index.

Über Autor(innen)

Nancy I. Bird-Soto received her PhD in Hispanic literatures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006. Her most recent publications are Gendering XXI: Latinas, caribeñas y sus otros modos de ser (2017) and Los hipócritas de Franca de Armiño (2013).