Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- 14 Oratory, Memoir, and Theater
- 15 Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands
- 16 Making It Nuevo
- 17 The Archive and Afro-Latina/o Field-Formation
- 18 Floricanto en Aztlán
- 19 “The Geography of Their Complexion”
- 20 Cuban American Counterpoint
- 21 Latina/o Theatre and Performance in the Context of Social Movements
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
19 - “The Geography of Their Complexion”
Nuyorican Poetry and Its Legacies
from Part III - Negotiating Literary Modernity
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 16 February 2018
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Book contents
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Acknowledgements
- Chronology
- Introduction
- Part I Rereading the Colonial Archive
- Part II The Roots and Routes of Latina/o Literature
- Part III Negotiating Literary Modernity
- 14 Oratory, Memoir, and Theater
- 15 Literary Revolutions in the Borderlands
- 16 Making It Nuevo
- 17 The Archive and Afro-Latina/o Field-Formation
- 18 Floricanto en Aztlán
- 19 “The Geography of Their Complexion”
- 20 Cuban American Counterpoint
- 21 Latina/o Theatre and Performance in the Context of Social Movements
- Part IV Literary Migrations across the Americas, 1980–2017
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index
- References
Summary
This chapter engages Nuyorican poetry's mapping of diaspora from a geospatial perspective. Bringing together the seminal diaspora-centric approach of Juan Flores with a geopoetic framework informed by the work of geographers such as David Harvey, Edward Soja, and E.C. Relph, the chapter proposes that Nuyorican poets, writers, and artists from the 1960s to the present understand their work as a means to remap New York Puerto Rican history and experience from a complex and multifocal diasporic perspective. While focusing primarily on the foundational Nuyorican poets of the 1960s and 1970s (among them Pedro Pietri, Miguel Piñero, Tato Laviera, Sandra María Esteves, and Miguel Algarín), the chapter also devotes substantive attention to younger generations, and especially to the work of Lydia Cortés and Nancy Mercado, two critically underappreciated 1980s poets working in and expanding the Nuyorican tradition. Throughout, the essay emphasizes the centrality of “Loisaida” and “Nuyorico” as conceptual and existential spaces that counter hegemonic geographies while linking generations of poets, artists, scholars, and activists across space and time.
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- The Cambridge History of Latina/o American Literature , pp. 411 - 434Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2018
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