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	Puerto Rican Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Many critics have pointed out that Puerto Rican literature is split between two shores: Puerto Rican literature written by island authors and the more recent Puerto Rican literature written in the United States by the sons and daughters of the different migratory waves along the twentieth century.
		Puerto Rican literature on the island has been characterized by a number of recurrent themes concerning the definition of cultural and national identity as a way to solve the contradiction of being Latina American but U.S. citizens, of being a Caribbean nation which is still US territory yet culturally and linguistically different.
		Puerto Rican identity is for these writers something complex they have to explore and redefine all the time but it is also something new and full of life and energy as a product of the interaction of cultures on American soil.
	webs.ono.com /usr048/pricans (1339 words)

	Random House Academic Resources \| When I Was Puerto Rican by Esmeralda Santiago
		Puerto Rico, our "fifty-first state," has an anomalous status as both American and Hispanic, "foreign": Esmeralda Santiago gives us an extraordinary insight into what it is like to be a Puerto Rican, both on the island and as an immigrant in New York City.
		Certain contradictions in Puerto Rican culture are symbolized by the juxtaposition in Santurce of the Evangelical church and the botanica.
		In Puerto Rican culture, especially during the Fifties when Esmeralda Santiago was a child, boys and girls had different roles and expectations in life.
	www.randomhouse.com /acmart/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=0679756760&view=tg (2542 words)

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		Puerto Ricans often wished to work in the United States for a time and then return to Puerto Rico with enough money to buy a house and maybe a little land on which live out their golden years.
		Self-exile for the Puerto Rican and the length of that sentence were generally contingent on two factors: the individual’s ability to adapt to the mainland and his or her economic status.
		Second, by moving to the United States Puerto Ricans mistakenly believed they would be able to resolve their problems when, in actuality and as Soto later develops in his succeeding stories, they are presented with a whole new set of problems on top of the old ones.
	www.lehman.cuny.edu /ciberletras/v10/vega.htm (6024 words)

	Occasional Paper No. 5
		Puerto Ricans are, and have been for centuries, a people of the borderlands, or should we say the borderseas, right in the middle of the crossing paths of all ships.
		Yes, there are Puerto Ricans who write in English; most of them live in the U.S. and they opt for English because it seems more appropriate for their personal artistic expression, but must do not go back and forth in different works.
		For most Puerto Ricans, however, there is no choice at all; we feel Spanish is irreplaceable in our art and do not resort to English even after having mastered it as a means of literary production, which is, in any case, not true of many.
	www.jsri.msu.edu /RandS/research/ops/oc05.html (4737 words)

	Puerto Rican Literature in the United States: Stages and Perspectives (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Understandably, Puerto Rican literature in the twentieth century has been obsessed with the United States, whose presence not only lurks, allegorically, as the awesome colossus to the north but is manifest in every aspect of national life.
		The first Puerto Ricans to write about life in the United States were political exiles from the independence struggle against Spain, who came to New York in the late decades of the nineteenth century to escape the clutches of the colonial authorities.
		Puerto Rican literature of this first stage showed many of the signs of an immigrant literature, just as the community itself, still relatively modest in size, resembled that of earlier immigrant groups in social status, hopes for advancement, and civic participation.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/n091/091039.htm (4535 words)

	Puerto Rico's Culture: Literature (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The writings of two Puerto Ricans became known in Mexico because of these close bonds - the poet Francisco de Ayerra y Santa María, a noted Latin scholar, and Alonso Ramírez, a carpenter's son who authored a series of high adventures.
		The last half of the 19th century was particularly fruitful in terms of literary works as the increasing numbers of new settlers tried to capture the rhythms and landscapes of their new world in prose and poetry.
		His work seems to have released a floodgate of works by other Puerto Rican who in essays, novels, and poetry explored the cultural struggle faced by the island since 1898.
	welcome.topuertorico.org /culture/litera.shtml (1073 words)

	Puerto Rican Literature
		There was, however, oral manifestations of literature in the way of popular coplas and decimas, yet it was not until the XIX century that written literary production began in Puerto Rico.
		He was a man of the Antilles, an educator and writer that influenced not only the politics and culture of Puerto Rico, but is still revered throughout Latin America all the way to Chile.
		Puerto Rico felt and was influenced by all the isms, such as Noism or transcendentalism, and the flow of literary production continued.
	www.geocities.com /TheTropics/3684/lit.html (632 words)

	97.01.01: Chicano and Puerto Rican Literature
		Some of my students are of Puerto Rican descent and I thought that it would be appropriate to study works that represent their heritage.
		Chicano literature can be defined as “the literature written since 1848 by Americans of Mexican descent or Mexicans in the USA who write about the Mexican-American experience.” (1) Chicano literature is in a constant state of flux because it draws from the people living here and the migration of others across the border.
		Puerto Rican migration is somewhat unique because of its circular pattern.
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/1997/1/97.01.01.x.html (2502 words)

	Working Paper No. 42
		In the 1995 anthology Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings, editor Roberto Santiago, a second generation Puerto Rican born and raised in Spanish Harlem, returns to the island of "Borinquen," using the term Boricua in a manner different from Babín, illustrating the instability of any one cultural/ethnic signifier.
		Although Puerto Ricans were "granted" citizenship through the imposition of the Jones Act of 1917, they have been historically denied equal access to the rights of citizenship.
		In 1873 Slavery was abolished in Puerto Rico.
	www.jsri.msu.edu /RandS/research/wps/wp42.html (4741 words)

	Lopez-Adorno (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		He is now a Professor in the Department of Black and Puerto Rican Studies of Hunter College, where he has been since 1987.
		López Adorno's areas of expertise are: Latin American literature (poetry, in particular); Puerto Rican literature (from colonial times to the present); literary criticism and theory (including postmodern theory); and Latino literature in the U.S. As a poet he is considered a key voice within the generation of Latin American poets born after 1950.
		At Hunter he has created the course, Latino Literature (focusing on the literary evolution of Latino/a writing across the U.S.) and has re-structured the courses on Puerto Rican Literature.
	www.hunter.cuny.edu /blpr/lopez.html (337 words)

	Puerto Rican and Latino Studies
		Alternatives for Puerto Ricans in a Caribbean context and the impact of a change in political status of the island upon Puerto Ricans in the United States.
		Representative literature of Puerto Rican and Latino writers who lived or are living in what is today the United States.
		Comparisons of the socio-historical context of Puerto Ricans and Dominicans from their countries of origin to the United States.
	depthome.brooklyn.cuny.edu /diversity/PuertoRicanandLatinoStudies.htm (1225 words)

	Puerto Rican Studies Sequence (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Puerto Rican/Latino Sequence of the Department of Africana and Puerto Rican/Latino Studies is geared towards a multidisciplinary pedagogical and philosophical approach which encompasses the study of Puerto Rico, the Dominican Republic and Cuba specifically, and the rest of the Caribbean in a comparative perspective.
		We also engage in the study and analysis of the Puerto Rican diaspora to the U.S. The study of these areas is framed within the racial, historical, linguistic, religious, social and cultural context of syncretism that took place within the native Taíno population, the Spanish colonizers and African people brought in as slaves.
		The courses in the Puerto Rican/Latino Sequence have been developed with the teachings and philosophy of famous Puerto Rican thinkers such as Eugenio María de Hostos, Ramón Emeterio Betances, Pedro Albizu Campos, Luisa Capetillo, and Julia de Burgos, in mind.
	www.hunter.cuny.edu /blpr/puertorico.html (609 words)

	University Press of Florida: Humor and the Eccentric Text in Puerto Rican Literature
		Puerto Rican writers from the island and mainland have long used a variety of comic genres and forms to affirm an autonomous national identity and resist cultural hegemony and assimilation.
		Framing his discussion in the context of Latin American, Latino, and Caribbean traditions, Reyes argues that humor and the eccentric text reimagine Puerto Rican national identity from the perspective of incongruity.
		While demonstrating the genre's own instabilities, Reyes argues, humor in Puerto Rican literature negotiates incongruity and allows for a national identity to emerge from multiple centers of articulation.
	www.upf.com /book.asp?id=REYESS05 (225 words)

	00.01.05: Understanding Ethnic Labels and Puerto Rican Identity
		Puerto Ricans are U.S. citizens by virtue of the Jones Act of 1917.
		Puerto Ricans of all colors and ancestry would say that they are just Puerto Ricans.
		Rodriguez explains that in Puerto Rico, not only is the racial classification very different from that of the United States, but that a fl or white Puerto Rican, for instance, is not considered a distinguishable ethnic group..
	www.yale.edu /ynhti/curriculum/units/2000/1/00.01.05.x.html (5449 words)

	Masterpiece Theatre \| American Collection \| Almost a Woman \| Links + Bibliography
		In October of 1999, The Harvard Book Review talked with Santiago about her experience as a Puerto Rican woman at Harvard, her definition of "home," as well as her writing process and inspirations.
		Genres included are anthologies, prose fiction, poetry, drama, criticism, journals and Puerto Rican literature dealing with the immigrant experience.
		Puerto Rico at the Dawn of the Modern Age: 19th- and Early-20th-Century Perspectives
	www.pbs.org /wgbh/masterpiece/americancollection/woman/links.html (914 words)

	LATINA (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Exploration of dichotomies: history and myth, culture and acculturation, tradition and charge in relation to the Puerto Rican experience on the island and on the mainland.
		Lifestyle and emerging cultural personality of Puerto Ricans raised on the mainland; role of the Puerto Rican dynamics of social and cultural change in America.
		Survey of major issues in Puerto Rican society stemming from the late 1800s until the present as represented in major literary texts from the five literary genres: novel, short story, drama, poetry, and essay.
	undergrad-catalog.buffalo.edu /cat0001/latina.htm (592 words)

	Puerto Rican Literature, 1988 - 96: An Annotated Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Geographical diversity differentiates this bibliography from Edna Acosta-Belén's “The Literature of Puerto Rican Migration in the United States: An Annotated Bibliography”: the literature presented here is no longer the exclusive domain of writers from New York City.
		Despite deep cuts in funding for Puerto Rican studies and ethnic studies in general, literary as well as critical production in these areas has flourished, and critics from the United States and Puerto Rico have become increasingly interested in literature written by Puerto Ricans in the United States.
		The Puerto Rican bibliography is one of a series on multicultural literatures initiated by the MLA Committee on the Literatures and Languages of America.
	www.mla.org /ade/bulletin/N115/115026.htm (2579 words)

	Courses Puerto Rican and Hispanic Caribbean Studies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Origin and development of Puerto Rican culture on the island and in the U.S. Selective focus on the family, religion, morality, race relations, sex roles, and institutions of authority.
		Study of development of Puerto Rican literature from the Spanish colonial period to the present.
		Historical evolution of the movement of Puerto Ricans between the island and the U.S. examined within the colonial context and the international circulation of workers.
	latcar.rutgers.edu /courses.html (1390 words)

	Puerto Rican Literature in Georgia
		As a child going back and forth to Puerto Rico, I became very observant; I guess children who are lonely because they are dislocated and relocated geographically and emotionally become observers of life.
		RO: On the subject of Puerto Rican literature, I was impressed with your archetypal town of Salud in The Line of the Sun.
		That is what being a Puerto Rican woman is. It's to have your feet on the ground and your soul in the church.
	virtual.park.uga.edu /~jcofer/ocasiogeorgiainterview.html (3157 words)

	puerto rican life : culture site covering news, celebrities, literature, celebrations and more
		Learn about the origins of Puerto Rican music, such as bomba and salsa, as well as music from other countries that has influenced Puerto Rican music, such as Cuba’s mambo.
		This site features profiles of notable Puerto Rican men and women, a historical timeline for Puerto Rico, video clips of presentations given for the Center for Puerto Rican Studies at Hunter College, a gallery of works by Puerto Rican artists, and a discussion board.
		PuertoRicans.com features interviews with numerous Puerto Rican entertainers, discussion boards on topics from the history of Puerto Rico to Ricky Martin, and info about nightclubs, but I liked their extensive list of links the best.
	www.puertoricanlife.com (503 words)

	puerto rican english newspapers Directory - Newspapers & Media (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Puerto Rican Literature in the United States: Stages and...
		Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican Obituary, there was suddenly a literature by Puerto Ricans, in English and...
		Puerto Rican teaches in her language of love: volleyball Maria Garcia has not mastered English yet.
	newspapers.your-media-empire.com /puerto-rican-english-newspapers (395 words)

	John Perivolaris, Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael Sanchez (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		Yet to undo the populism that is the political legacy of movements such as Luis Muñoz Marín's modernising Partido Popular Democrático (itself anticipated by Pedreira), Sánchez has to make recourse to the same terrain that nurtures populism: popular culture, in both its (Afro)Caribbean vibrancy, and its susceptibility to the blandishments of US mass culture.
		Perivolaris argues that over the course of his work, Sánchez increasingly and in ever more sophisticated ways represents Puerto Rican popular culture fleeing and evading the definition sought by the nationalists' question.
		Perivolaris points out that Sánchez is a transitional figure "between the paternalism of his country's literary tradition and the full-blown defiance of younger Puerto Rican writers" (20).
	www.art.man.ac.uk /SPANISH/staff/Writings/perivolaris.html (643 words)

	MINOR IN PUERTO RICAN STUDIES (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		The Puerto Rican Minor intends to provide students with a better understanding of the Puerto Rican and Caribbean cultures, and is directed to those students interested in serving the Puerto Rican community locally and nationally.
		In conjunction with their major disciplines, students will find that a Minor in Puerto Rican Studies offers more flexibility in seeking careers in teaching, social work, journalism, and the health sciences, as well as working with minority groups, community development and bilingual programs.
		For information please consult the Coordinator of Puerto Rican Studies, Dr. Sonia Rivera-Valdés, at 262-2440 or Dr. Edvige Agostinelli Coleman, Chair of the Department of Foreign Languages/ESL/Humanities at 262-2430, Room 3C08 Academic Core.
	www.york.cuny.edu /language/puerto.html (160 words)

	Puerto Rican Folkloric Dance & Cultural Center - Music, Dance, and Culture of Puerto Rico
		Information on Puerto Rican dance, music, history and culture can sometimes be hard to find here in the States.
		The Puerto Rico Cuatro Project, "Nuestra Cautro - The Puerto Ricans and their Stringed Instruments." The first feature-length video documentary about the music and history of Puerto Rican stringed instruments.
		Escape to Puerto Rico is an internet guide to Puerto Rico featuring trip planning tools and resource information, guides for entertainment, local business, government and community services.
	www.prfdance.com /research.htm (2679 words)

	Publisher description for Library of Congress control number 95094411
		"Boricua is what Puerto Ricans call one another as a term of endearment, respect, and cultural affirmation; it is a timeless declaration that transcends gender and color.
		From the sun-drenched beaches of a beautiful, flamboyan-covered island to the cool, hard pavement of the fierce South Bronx, the remarkable journey of the Puerto Rican people is a rich story full of daring defiance, courageous strength, fierce passions, and dangerous politics--and it is a story that continues to be told today.
		Long ignored by Anglo literature studies, here are more than fifty selections of poetry, fiction, plays, essays, monologues, screenplays, and speeches from some of the most vibrant and original voices in Puerto Rican literature.
	www.loc.gov /catdir/description/random047/95094411.html (225 words)

	Puerto Rican Literature, 1988 - 96: An Annotated Bibliography (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-21)
		THIS bibliography presents some of the most recent works of literature written by Puerto Ricans born and raised in the United States.
		The transformation of the life of an upper-middle-class family that moves from the Puerto Rican countryside to Worcester, Massachussets.
		In addition to the bibliographies on Chicano and Chicana Literature and Puerto Rican Literature appearing in this issue, bibliographies on African American, Asian American, and Native American literature are scheduled to appear in the ADE Bulletin in the coming year.
	www.adfl.org /adfl/bulletin/V28N2/OLD/282049.HTM (2569 words)

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