CENTRO Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies:Volume 24 Issue 1 - Softcover

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CENTRO Journal is the premier academic journal in Puerto Rican Studies, and one of the top ones in Latino Studies. Since 1987 the journal has been published uninterrupted, and has always brought out cutting-edge analysis of the Puerto Rican realities—mainland and island.This issue of CENTRO Journal (vol. 24, no. 1, spring 2012) is headed by an essay by well-known literary critic Arnaldo Cruz-Malavé on the importance to Puerto Rican, Latino, American and minority literatures in the U.S. of the work of the late writer/poet Piri Thomas, author of the classic Down These Mean Streets. The number also includes essays on: the meanings and perceptions of race among return migrants to Puerto Rico (Eileen Findley); the influence that the African American quest for civil rights had on Puerto Ricans in the U.S. (Milagros Denis-Rosario); on citizenship and marginalization of Puerto Ricans in the U.S. (Carmen Lugo-Lugo); the language debates in Puerto Rico as seen from the perspective of a poor mountain community (Elaine Shenk); an analysis of Ángel Lozada’s novel No quiero quedarme sola y vacía (María Celina Bortolotto); an interview where acclaimed writer Luis Rafael Sánchez discusses the impact that film had in 20th century literature (Raquel Puig-Campos); an interview with noted novelist Rosario Ferré on the controversies generated by her writing of novels in English (Frances Negrón-Muntaner); plus 7 book review on recent books about Puerto Rico, Puerto Ricans in the U.S., and Latinos in the U.S.

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