Mainland passage : the cultural anomaly 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...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Soto-Crespo, Ramón E.
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press ©2009.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5749/j.ctttsmw1
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: neither colony nor nation
  • State and artifice: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá and Puerto Rican painting
  • The mainland passage: Luis Muñoz Marín's borderland state
  • Escaping colonialism: how to do things with American imperialism
  • Out of the mainland: Nuyorican poetry and Boricua politics.