Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology

by Roberto Santiago (Editor)

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"Selection of poetry, stories, drama, and essays by 40 Puerto Rican writers, late-19th - late-20th centuries. Organized into thematic categories such as 'History and Politics' and 'Anxiety and Assimilation.' Introduction by Santiago makes clear his goal, that the book 'will provide us with answers to our innermost questions of identity.' Majority of texts originally written in English or 'Spanglish'; translations from Spanish range from good to excellent"--Handbook of Latin American show more Studies, v. 58. show less

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Agüeros, Jack (Contributor)
Albizu Campos, Pedro (Contributor)
Algarín, Miguel (Contributor)
Anglesey, Zoë (Contributor)
CienFuegos, Lucky (Contributor)
Colón, Jesús (Contributor)
Díaz Escalet, Frank (Cover artist)
de Burgos, Julia (Contributor)
de Diego, José (Contributor)
Espada, Martín (Contributor)
Esteves, Sandra María (Contributor)
Fernández, Ronald (Contributor)
Flores, Clemente (Cover artist)
González, José Luis (Contributor)
González-Whippler, Migene (Contributor)
Graneila de Pruetzel, María (Contributor)
Guzmán, Pablo (Contributor)
Hernández Cruz, Victor (Contributor)
Levins Morales, Aurora (Contributor)
Luciano, Felipe (Contributor)
Marqués, René (Contributor)
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Morales, Martita (Contributor)
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Povod, Reinaldo (Contributor)
Prinze, Freddie (Contributor)
Rivera, Geraldo (Contributor)
Rodríguez, Abraham, Jr. (Contributor)
Rodríguez, Clara E. (Contributor)
Santiago, Esmeralda (Contributor)
Soto, Pedro Juan (Contributor)
Thomas, Piri (Contributor)
Torres, Edwin (Contributor)
Torres, José (Contributor)
Vásquez, Joseph V. (Contributor)
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Fiction and Literature, Literature Studies and Criticism
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810.8 — Literature & rhetoric American literature in English American literature in English Anthologies and Collections
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