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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 133–143.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Raquel Salas Rivera Working as principal investigator and head of the translation team for El proyecto de la literatura puertorriqueña / the Puerto Rican Literature Project (PRLP)—a free, bilingual, user-friendly, and open access digital portal that anyone can use to learn about and teach Puerto...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 179–187.
Published: 01 November 2017
... literature. Building on Pérez-Rosario's documentation of Burgos's relationship to water and paying particular attention to how water served as an escape route for the poet, this work places Burgos in dialogue not only with Puerto Rican literature but also with other Caribbean poets such as Derek Walcott...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 174–176.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Copyright © 2022 by Small Axe, Inc. 2022 N ancy B ird -S oto is professor of Spanish at the University of Wisconsin–Milwaukee, where she teaches Latin American and US Latinx literatures. In 2018 she published Dissident Spirits: The Post-insular Imprint in Puerto Rican / Diasporic...
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Small Axe (2014) 18 (3 (45)): 64–77.
Published: 01 November 2014
... on the problem of translating and “placing” Nuyorican and diasporic Puerto Rican literature within the literary canon, see Yolanda Martínez–San Miguel, “Boricua (between) Borders: On the Possibility of Translating Bilingual Narratives,” in Frances Negrón-Muntaner, ed., None of the Above: Puerto Ricans...
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Small Axe (2021) 25 (3 (66)): 160–165.
Published: 01 November 2021
... and Stan Steiner, eds., Borinquen: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Literature (New York: Knopf, 1974), 59–65, and the five political pamphlets (trans. Kal Wagenheim and Olga Jimeńez de Wagenheim) included in Ilán Stavans, ed., Norton Anthology of Latino Literature (New York: W. W. Norton, 2010), 228–34...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (2 (50)): 92–97.
Published: 01 July 2016
... anglophone Caribbean figures such as Kamau Brathwaite, George Lamming, Gordon K. Lewis, and Lorna Goodison. Major Puerto Rican writers such as Luis Rafael Sánchez, Pedro Juan Soto, and Ana Lydia Vega were featured in early issues as well. After publishing nine issues in a bound letter-page format, Sargasso...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 44–52.
Published: 01 March 2020
... Emeterio Betances Puerto Rico Caribbean decolonization anticolonialism Caribbean literature Although he did not originate the concept of a Caribbean federation, the Afro–Puerto Rican intellectual Ramón Emeterio Betances (1827–98) was its principal and most fervent advocate in the second half...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 84–97.
Published: 01 November 2022
...Luis Othoniel Rosa This essay studies how the writings and praxis of loud-reading in tobacco factories of the Puerto Rican anarcha-feminist Luisa Capetillo (1882–1922) exemplifies what can be called a “pedagogy of unruliness.” This hypothesis is that unruliness is a teachable form of knowledge...
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Small Axe (2018) 22 (1 (55)): 55–69.
Published: 01 March 2018
... challenges the dominant narrative that Puerto Ricans and Dominicans are always in conflict. The music video contributes to a larger body of literature and cultural production that highlights the connections between Dominicans and Puerto Ricans in Puerto Rico and the United States. 17 Jorge Duany notes...
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Small Axe (2004) 8 (2): 61–83.
Published: 01 September 2004
... in New York City, Sánchez came of age with the Black Power and the Black Arts movements of the late 1960s and the burgeoning Nuyorican (New York Puerto Rican) movements in art, literature, and culture of the early 1970s. He continues to draw on both as points of departure for his work. Th e infl uence...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (2 (68)): 1–23.
Published: 01 July 2022
... the Nation in Puerto Rican Art and Literature,” MLN 117, no. 2 (2002): 451. Soto-Crespo argues that El velorio , like other works of Puerto Rican art and literature, is an “incomplete” or “unfinished space in mourning for previous forms of national connectedness” (ibid.). Renan, Qu’est-ce qu’une nation...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 147–162.
Published: 01 November 2016
... conference titled “Images and Identities: The Puerto Rican in Literature,” which brought together creative writers and critics from Puerto Rico and the diaspora for the first time, Algarín evoked the cultural and epistemic violence that migration signified: What does it mean, then, to the New York Puerto...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 203–208.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Jossianna Arroyo This review essay focuses on a critical reading of Vanessa Pérez-Rosario's book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon with the aim to shed light on these following questions: How can we read the writing of community in the work of Julia de Burgos? And to what...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 188–202.
Published: 01 November 2017
... lucha de independencia.” 24 This reenergized movement was fueled by a growing anti–Vietnam War sentiment and a fervent opposition to the drafting of Puerto Ricans, who, as US citizens since 1917, were being inducted into the US armed forces. Reading the progressive anticolonial literature...
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Small Axe (2016) 20 (3 (51)): 21–31.
Published: 01 November 2016
... identity among Puerto Ricans, Dominicans, and Cubans. 21 “Our lack of communication,” says Sánchez, “is not limited to the French- or English-speaking Caribbean.” Our ignorance about the Dominican Republic's literature is astonishing unless the text comes via a Spanish publisher...
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Small Axe (2020) 24 (1 (61)): 120–131.
Published: 01 March 2020
...-Latina/o Field-Formation: Arturo Alfonso Schomburg at the Intersection of Puerto Rican and African-American Literatures,” in John Morán González and Laura Lomas, eds., The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2018), 371–93. 19 Lisa Sánchez...
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Small Axe (2006) 10 (1): 74–93.
Published: 01 February 2006
... entered another dimension, one called
Nueva York. Puerto Rican arrival stories abound in the literature, and ours was not very
diff erent from the others. A sense of excitement is followed by an acute sense of displace-
ment, followed by culture shock, followed by a sense of despair, followed...
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Small Axe (2022) 26 (3 (69)): 74–83.
Published: 01 November 2022
... Sánchez González, Boricua Literature: A Literary History of the Puerto Rican Diaspora (New York: New York University Press, 2001), 81. 41 “Working-class intellectual”; “democratizer of the written word”; Ramos, introduction to Amor y anarquía , 37. 42 “Let us educate our own will so...
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Small Axe (2013) 17 (2 (41)): 172–185.
Published: 01 July 2013
... could still flatly admit, “Of course we are ex-colonials, and we have only recently begun to move our cultural capital within our own borders.” 10 This “postcolonial” character of his interpretation of the US past is on full display in the scholarship that appeared prior to his Puerto Rican...
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Small Axe (2017) 21 (3 (54)): 209–218.
Published: 01 November 2017
...Vanessa Pérez-Rosario This essay—a response to a discussion of the author's 2014 book Becoming Julia de Burgos: The Making of a Puerto Rican Icon —focuses on the importance of generations, intellectual genealogies, iconicity, and the afterlives of Puerto Rican poet and writer Julia de Burgos. ©...
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