Divided Borders: Essays on Puerto Rican Identity

by Juan Flores

Book Overview

A collection of the essays on history, literature and culture by the most celebrated commentator on Puerto Rican and Caribbean culture in the United States, by the winner of the casa de las Américas... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558850465
• ISBN13: 9781558850460
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: Arte Publico Press
• Length: 252 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.4" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

We are more than Salsa

This book should be in every educator's library. That's my aunt (the young lady on the left in the photograph on page 110) the Rev. Mina Olivieri. She celebrated her 90th birthday on November 21,2009 and she is still preaching.

Multiculturalism as a means for counterhegemonic measures.

Juan Flores, using an exquisite prose, treats us throuh a series of separate essays dialectically united about the puertorrican culture and identity "crisis". The book is a firm statement against cultural nationalism, cultural "hispanofilia", and other purist visions inside the puertorrican culture context. It extends the puertorrican culture to those living in the states, taking as close case of study the ones living in New York. More than mere and engaging exposition, it proposes or tries to show us the headings the latinos should address in a counterhegemonic struggle against mainstream(in it's rigidest form) culture in the U. S.