Dissident Spirits

This book explores the post-insular imprint in Puerto Rican letters through a sample of authors from the island and the diaspora.

Autorentext

Nancy I. Bird-Soto received her PhD in Hispanic literatures from the University of Wisconsin-Madison in 2006. Her most recent publications are Gendering XXI: Latinas, caribeñas y sus otros modos de ser (2017) and Los hipócritas de Franca de Armiño (2013).

Inhalt

Acknowledgments - Introduction: Dissident Spirts and the Case for the Post-Insular - Spirits of Dissidence: Alejandro Tapia y Rivera's Póstumo el transmigrado and Póstumo envirginiado - Whimsical Women: Gender and Labor in the Plays of Luisa Capetillo and Franca de Armino - "All in the Name of Liberation:" Feminist and Abolitionist: The Story of Emilia Casanova - A Poetic Manifesto for the Caribbean: Victor Hernandez Cruz's In the Shadow of Al-Andalus - Index.