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U.S. Latino/a Literature                                      -                               Puerto Rican Literature in the United States

 

"Cumbanchero" by Antonio Broccoli Porto,

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The literature by Puerto Rican women writers in the United States has grown significantly since the 1970s, though many of these writers live or were raised in places other than New York City. Nicholasa Mohr is one of the best-known writers of prose fiction for adults as well as young adults and children. Mohr's novels and short-story collections include Nilda, El Bronx Remembered, In Nueva York, Felita, Going Home, Rituals of Survival: A Woman's Portfolio, and Growing Up Inside the Sanctuary of My Imagination. Sandra María Esteves has achieved recognition as a poet, authoring the poetry anthologies Yerba Buena, Tropical Rains, and Bluestown Mockingbird Mambo. Outside of New York City, writers such as Judith Ortiz Cofer, Carmen de Monteflores, and Esmeralda Santiago have produced important autobiographical accounts of the migrant experience. Ortiz Cofer's The Line of the Sun, Silent Dancing, and The Latin Deli have received critical acclaim. Her poetry includes the collections Terms of Survival and Reaching for the Mainland. Monteflores's autobiographical novel Cantando bajito/Singing Softly and Santiago's When I Was Puerto Rican have made their mark on readers, who are expecting more from these emerging talents. Aurora Levins Morales and her mother, Rosario Morales, have poignantly captured in their poetry and prose collection Getting Home Alive the multiple borderland identities and struggles experienced by Puerto Rican women, and their solidarity with other women of color.

The wide spectrum of Puerto Rican women's writing in the United States also includes those writers who write primarily in Spanish and who are frequently better known among Puerto Rican literary circles. In some cases their works have been translated into English. Names such as Julia de Burgos, Iris Zavala, Luz María Umpierre, Etna Iris Rivera, Rosario Ferré, Giannina Braschi, and Brenda Alejandro also part of the complex dynamic that constitutes the Puerto Rican migrant experience.

U.S. Puerto Rican women writers share with other Latina writers a strong panethnic Latina consciousness that incorporates elements of solidarity with other women's struggles in Latin America and the United States. The adoption of the term women of color reflects a recognition of the diverse oppressions faced by women worldwide based on race, class, gender, or sexual orientation. A literary discourse has emerged as a result of the cultural subjectivity of being a Latina, which recognizes the shared experiences at individual, collective, and interethnic levels, but also transcends national origins in its solidarity with the liberation struggles of women and other oppressed groups.

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