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Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology

Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology

José Luis González
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MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD
"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. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people."
--From the Introduction
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.


Contents:

Catharsis. Here by Sandra Maria Esteves
To the Persecuted by José de Diego
The Sounds of Sixth Street by Martita Morales
A Letter to a Child Like Me by José Torres
It Is Raining Today by Sandra Maria Esteves
How to Know the Puerto Ricans by Jesus Colon
Island of Lost Causes by Esmeralda Santiago
Hallelujahs by José de Diego
Puerto Rican Nationalism by Pedro Albizu Campos
On Recent Disturbances in Puerto Rico by Luis Muñoz Marin
The Boy Without a Flag by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
Grand River of Loiza by Julia de Burgos
The "Lamento Borincano" by José Luis González
The Party by Pablo Guzman
Los Macheteros by Ronald Fernandez
Double Allegiance by Rosario Morales
Child of the Americas by Aurora Levins Morales
Ay Ay Ay, of the Kinky Negress by Julia de Burgos
Puerto Ricans: Between Black and White by Clara E. Rodriguez
Nigger-Reecan Blues by Willie Perdomo
Black and Latino by Roberto Santiago
Babylon for the Babylonians by Piri Thomas
African Things by Victor Hernandez Cruz
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer
A Mongo Affair by Miguel Algarin
Puerto Rican Obituary by Pedro Pietri
The Konk by Piri Thomas
The Story of My Body by Judith Ortiz Cofer
To Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
Hangin' with the Homeboys by Joséph B. Vasquez
Niggerlips by Martin Espada
Little Things Are Big by Jesus Colon
The Docile Puerto Rican - Literature and Psychological Reality by René Marqués
The American Invasion of Macun by Esmeralda Santiago
Urban reality. Monday Morning by Pedro Pietri
"Looking Good" by Freddie Prinze
Carlito's Way by Edwin Torres
Short Eyes by Miguel Piñero
Poppa Dio! by Reinaldo Povod
Bayaminina by Pedro Juan Soto
Roots by Felipe Luciano
I Became My Own Path by Julia de Burgos
Yoruba by Migene Gonzalez -Wippler
Aunt Rosana's Rocker by Nicholasa Mohr
Aerobics for Love by Ana Lydia Vega
Malig; Malig & Sal; Sal. by Jack Agüeros
My Old Flame by Ed Morales
HIV by Miguel Algarin
Poem for My Death by Julia de Burgos
Dedicated to Maria Rodriguez Martinez - February 24, 1975 by Lucky CienFuegos
The Freddie Prinze Story by Maria Graniela de Pruetzel
A Special Kind of Courage: Bernard Carabello by Geraldo Rivera
Loiza Aldea by Victor Hernandez Cruz
Redemption. The Final Act by José de Diego
Language
English
Pages
402
Format
Paperback
Publisher
One World/Ballantine
Release
September 11, 1995
ISBN
0345395026
ISBN 13
9780345395023

Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writings - An Anthology

José Luis González
4.3/5 ( ratings)
Read Download
MANY CULTURES * ONE WORLD
"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. Boricua is a powerful word that tells the origin and history of the Puerto Rican people."
--From the Introduction
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.


Contents:

Catharsis. Here by Sandra Maria Esteves
To the Persecuted by José de Diego
The Sounds of Sixth Street by Martita Morales
A Letter to a Child Like Me by José Torres
It Is Raining Today by Sandra Maria Esteves
How to Know the Puerto Ricans by Jesus Colon
Island of Lost Causes by Esmeralda Santiago
Hallelujahs by José de Diego
Puerto Rican Nationalism by Pedro Albizu Campos
On Recent Disturbances in Puerto Rico by Luis Muñoz Marin
The Boy Without a Flag by Abraham Rodriguez, Jr.
Grand River of Loiza by Julia de Burgos
The "Lamento Borincano" by José Luis González
The Party by Pablo Guzman
Los Macheteros by Ronald Fernandez
Double Allegiance by Rosario Morales
Child of the Americas by Aurora Levins Morales
Ay Ay Ay, of the Kinky Negress by Julia de Burgos
Puerto Ricans: Between Black and White by Clara E. Rodriguez
Nigger-Reecan Blues by Willie Perdomo
Black and Latino by Roberto Santiago
Babylon for the Babylonians by Piri Thomas
African Things by Victor Hernandez Cruz
The Myth of the Latin Woman: I Just Met a Girl Named Maria by Judith Ortiz Cofer
A Mongo Affair by Miguel Algarin
Puerto Rican Obituary by Pedro Pietri
The Konk by Piri Thomas
The Story of My Body by Judith Ortiz Cofer
To Julia de Burgos by Julia de Burgos
Hangin' with the Homeboys by Joséph B. Vasquez
Niggerlips by Martin Espada
Little Things Are Big by Jesus Colon
The Docile Puerto Rican - Literature and Psychological Reality by René Marqués
The American Invasion of Macun by Esmeralda Santiago
Urban reality. Monday Morning by Pedro Pietri
"Looking Good" by Freddie Prinze
Carlito's Way by Edwin Torres
Short Eyes by Miguel Piñero
Poppa Dio! by Reinaldo Povod
Bayaminina by Pedro Juan Soto
Roots by Felipe Luciano
I Became My Own Path by Julia de Burgos
Yoruba by Migene Gonzalez -Wippler
Aunt Rosana's Rocker by Nicholasa Mohr
Aerobics for Love by Ana Lydia Vega
Malig; Malig & Sal; Sal. by Jack Agüeros
My Old Flame by Ed Morales
HIV by Miguel Algarin
Poem for My Death by Julia de Burgos
Dedicated to Maria Rodriguez Martinez - February 24, 1975 by Lucky CienFuegos
The Freddie Prinze Story by Maria Graniela de Pruetzel
A Special Kind of Courage: Bernard Carabello by Geraldo Rivera
Loiza Aldea by Victor Hernandez Cruz
Redemption. The Final Act by José de Diego
Language
English
Pages
402
Format
Paperback
Publisher
One World/Ballantine
Release
September 11, 1995
ISBN
0345395026
ISBN 13
9780345395023

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