Dream nation : Puerto Rican culture and the fictions of independence /

Over the past fifty years, Puerto Rican voters have roundly rejected any calls for national independence. Yet the rhetoric and iconography of independence have been defining features of Puerto Rican literature and culture. In the provocative new book Dream Nation, María Acosta Cruz investigates the...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Acosta Cruz, María, 1956-
Corporate Author: American Literatures Initiative
Format: Licensed eBooks
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, New Jersey : Rutgers University Press 2014.
Series:Latinidad.
Online Access:https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.2307/j.ctt5vjxjk
Table of Contents:
  • Literary tradition and the canon of independence
  • Breaking tradition
  • From the lush land to the traffic jam
  • Dream history, dream nation
  • Dreaming in Spanglish.