Mainland Passage

The Cultural Anomaly of Puerto Rico

By: Ramn E. Soto-Crespo

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Paperback | 5 August 2009

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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.

Ramon 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 Puerto Rico status debate to show that the two most discussed options-Puerto Rico's becoming either a fully federated state of the United States or an independent nation-represent false alternatives, and he forcefully reasons that Puerto Rico should be recognized as an anomalous political entity that does not conform to categories of political belonging.

Investigating a fundamental shift in the way Puerto Rican writers, politicians, and scholars have imagined their cultural identity, Mainland Passage demonstrates that Puerto Rico's commonwealth status exemplifies a counterhegemonic logic and introduces a vital new approach to understanding Puerto Rican culture and history.

"An extraordinarily effective and persuasive synthesis of political theory, historical exposition, and cultural analysis that does real justice to a topic of daunting complexity. Ramon Soto-Crespo's readings strike me as some of the best work being done now in US Latino literary criticism." -Ricardo L. Ortiz, Georgetown University

"Mainland Passage is a provocative intervention into some of the most intractable problems in Puerto Rican studies." -The Americas

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Non-Fiction History Regional & National History History of the Americas Society & Culture Cultural Studies Literature, Poetry & Plays History & Criticism of Literature General Literary Studies

Preface	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xxiii
Introduction Neither Colony nor Nation	p. 1
State and Artifice: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá and Puerto Rican Painting	p. 23
The Mainland Passage: Luis Muñoz Marín's Borderland State	p. 57
Escaping Colonialism: How to Do Things with American Imperialism	p. 82
Out of the Mainland: Nuyorican Poetry and Boricua Politics	p. 119
Notes	p. 145
Works Cited	p. 153
Index	p. 165
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