Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael Sánchez

Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael Sánchez
Author: John Perivolaris
Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press
Total Pages: 212
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780807892725

This book undertakes the most comprehensive and theoretically rigorous examination to date of Luis Rafael S¡nchez's work in the context of cultural politics in Puerto Rico, and of the international and regional dimensions of S¡nchez's work in relation to

World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes]

World Literature in Spanish [3 volumes]
Author: Maureen Ihrie
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 1509
Release: 2011-10-20
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 0313080836

Containing roughly 850 entries about Spanish-language literature throughout the world, this expansive work provides coverage of the varied countries, ethnicities, time periods, literary movements, and genres of these writings. Providing a thorough introduction to Spanish-language literature worldwide and across time is a tall order. However, World Literature in Spanish: An Encyclopedia contains roughly 850 entries on both major and minor authors, themes, genres, and topics of Spanish literature from the Middle Ages to the present day, affording an amazingly comprehensive reference collection in a single work. This encyclopedia describes the growing diversity within national borders, the increasing interdependence among nations, and the myriad impacts of Spanish literature across the globe. All countries that produce literature in Spanish in Europe, Africa, the Americas, and Asia are represented, covering both canonical authors and emerging contemporary writers and trends. Underrepresented writings—such as texts by women writers, queer and Afro-Hispanic texts, children's literature, and works on relevant but less studied topics such as sports and nationalism—also appear. While writings throughout the centuries are covered, those of the 20th and 21st centuries receive special consideration.

Sponsored Identities

Sponsored Identities
Author: Arlene M. Dávila
Publisher: Temple University Press
Total Pages: 328
Release: 1997
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781566395496

Examines the creation of an essentialist view of nationhood based on a peasant culture and a unifying Hispanic heritage, and the ways in which grassroots organizations challenge and reconfigure definitions of national identity through their own activities and representations.

Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women

Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women
Author: John T. Maddox IV
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 288
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786839121

Fractal Families in New Millennium Narrative by Afro-Puerto Rican Women is the first volume to treat Mayra Santos-Febres as a cultural theorist. It is the first book of criticism to include interviews with Afro-Puerto Rican women authors and critics. This is the first critical study to chronicle this new generation of Afro-Puerto Rican authors.

Virgins and Fleurs de Lys

Virgins and Fleurs de Lys
Author: Catherine Mary Den Tandt
Publisher: La Editorial, UPR
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2000
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780847703890

Malady and Genius

Malady and Genius
Author: Benigno Trigo
Publisher: SUNY Press
Total Pages: 242
Release: 2016-05-19
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1438461577

Analyzes the theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature through psychoanalytic theory. Malady and Genius examines the recurring theme of self-sacrifice in Puerto Rican literature during the second half of the twentieth and the beginning of the twenty-first centuries. Interpreting these scenes through the works of Frantz Fanon, Kelly Oliver, and Julia Kristeva, Benigno Trigo focuses on the context of colonialism and explains the meaning of this recurring theme as a mode of survival under a colonial condition that has lasted more than five hundred years in the oldest colony in the world. Trigo engages a number of works in Latino and Puerto Rican studies that have of late reconsidered the value of a psychoanalytic approach to texts and cultural material, and also different methodologies including post-colonial theory, cultural studies, and queer studies.

Queer Ricans

Queer Ricans
Author: Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
Publisher: U of Minnesota Press
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-07-13
Genre: History
ISBN: 1452914281

Exploring cultural expressions of Puerto Rican queer migration from the Caribbean to New York, Philadelphia, Chicago, and San Francisco, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes analyzes how artists have portrayed their lives and the discrimination they have faced in both Puerto Rico and the United States. Highlighting cultural and political resistance within Puerto Rico’s gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender subcultures, La Fountain-Stokes pays close attention to differences of gender, historical moment, and generation, arguing that Puerto Rican queer identity changes over time and is experienced in very different ways. He traces an arc from 1960s Puerto Rico and the writings of Luis Rafael Sánchez to New York City in the 1970s and 1980s (Manuel Ramos Otero), Philadelphia and New Jersey in the 1980s and 1990s (Luz María Umpierre and Frances Negrón-Muntaner), and Chicago (Rose Troche) and San Francisco (Erika López) in the 1990s, culminating with a discussion of Arthur Avilés and Elizabeth Marrero’s recent dance-theater work in the Bronx. Proposing a radical new conceptualization of Puerto Rican migration, this work reveals how sexuality has shaped and defined the Puerto Rican experience in the United States.

Phototextualities

Phototextualities
Author: Alex Hughes
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 308
Release: 2003
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780826328250

How are photographs understood as narratives? In this book twenty-two original critical essays tackle this overarching question in a series of case studies moving chronologically across the history of photography from the 1840s to the twenty-first century. The contributors explore the intersections of photography with history, memory, autobiography, time, death, mapping, the discourse of Orientalism, digital technology, and representations of race and gender. The essays range in focus from the role of photographic images in the memorialization of the Holocaust, the Argentine "Dirty Warm," and Japanese American internment camps through Man Ray's classic image "Noire et blanche" and Nan Goldin's "The Ballad of Sexual Dependency" to the function of family albums in nineteenth-century England and America.

The Companion to Hispanic Studies

The Companion to Hispanic Studies
Author: Catherine Davies
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 207
Release: 2014-05-01
Genre: Foreign Language Study
ISBN: 1444118811

What is 'Hispanic Studies'? This companion gives a concise and accessible overview of the discipline as taught today and suggests new directions for future developments. 'Hispanic Studies' is broadly concerned with the languages and cultures of the vast 'Hispanic' world, extending chronologically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from Roman Hispania to today, and geographically from California in the North to Patagonia in the South, and from Majorca in the East to the Andes in the West. This essential book provides all the necessary introductory information on the subject and will be especially useful for students who have already started courses in Spanish / Hispanic Studies, or who are considering doing so in the future. Written by a team of leading scholars each with established teaching experience this collection of short essays explores topics as diverse as the history of the Spanish language, Islamic Andalusia, race and class in the Spanish Golden Age, Catalan nationalism, the Madrid 'movida', Latin America cinema, tango in Argentina, Evita Per n, 'testimonio' and the cultural significance of the US-Mexican border. The emphasis is on literature and texts, including film and photography. In addition, the book includes time-lines, summary boxes adn suggestions for further reading.

Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture

Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture
Author: Todd W. Reeser
Publisher: UNC Press Books
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2006
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780807892879

Moderating Masculinity in Early Modern Culture proposes a definition of gender based on a ternary model in which moderation and masculinity are inextricably linked. Like the Aristotelian virtue of moderation, which requires the presence of excess a