Introduction: neither colony nor nation -- State and artifice: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá and Puerto Rican painting -- The mainland passage: Luis Muñoz Marín's borderland state -- Escaping colonialism: how to do things with American imperialism -- Out of the mainland: Nuyorican poetry and Boricua politics
Summary
One-third of the population of Puerto Rico moved to New York City during the mid-twentieth century. Since this massive migration, Puerto Rican literature and culture have grappled with an essential change in self-perception. Mainland Passage examines the history of that transformation, the political struggle over its representation, and the ways it has been imagined in Puerto Rico and in the work of Latina/o fiction writers. Ramón E. Soto-Crespo argues that the most significant consequence of this migration is the creation of a cultural and political borderland state. He intervenes in the Puert
