Mainland Passage: The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico - Couverture souple

Soto-Crespo, Ramón E.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 081665588X ISBN 13 : 9780816655885

Editeur : University of Minnesota Press, 2009

Synopsis

Disputes conventional thinking about the political status of Puerto Rico

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 Puerto Rico status debate to show that the two most discussed options--Puerto Rico's becoming either a fully federated state of the United States or an independent nation--represent false alternatives, and he forcefully reasons that Puerto Rico should be recognized as an anomalous political entity that does not conform to categories of political belonging.

Investigating a fundamental shift in the way Puerto Rican writers, politicians, and scholars have imagined their cultural identity, Mainland Passage demonstrates that Puerto Rico's commonwealth status exemplifies a counterhegemonic logic and introduces a vital new approach to understanding Puerto Rican culture and history.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Ramón Soto-Crespo is associate professor and director of Latina/o studies at SUNY-Buffalo.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Minnesota Press
• Date d'édition: 2009
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 081665588X
• ISBN 13: 9780816655885
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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