Puerto Rican Diaspora Writers. Carmen Haydée Rivera interviews Giannina Braschi, Caridad de la Luz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Raquel Salas Rivera, and others in a new anthology, Diasporic Journeys.
Puerto Rican Diaspora Literature
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Diasporic Journeys is a collection of interviews with contemporary Puerto Rican diaspora writers who are publishing and performing throughout the Unites States and abroad. The anthology highlights the ways in which history, traditions, geographic dispersal, cultural/ national identity, and linguistic merging converge in their lived experience and in their writing. The collection includes interviews with varied topics, thematic concerns, and accomplishments in each author’s life and works. Taken as a whole, the experiences of these writers provide insights into the effects of Puerto Rican migration and displacement from a national culture but also highlight a progressive socialization process that informs their writing and worldviews.
The interviews simultaneously display how the reality of those born and/or raised in the US is informed by an earlier generation of Puerto Rican diaspora writers, while at the same time creating a distinct style pertinent to a new age of Puerto Rican literary production in the United States.
The Puerto Rican diaspora writers included in the collection are: Giannina Braschi, Rodney Morales, Luisita López Torregrosa, Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes, JavierÁvila, Aya de León, María Teresa “Mariposa” Fernández, Caridad de la Luz, J.L. Torres, Migdalia Cruz, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Quiara Alegría Hudes, Raquel Salas Rivera.
Edited by Carmen Haydée Rivera
Puerto Rican Authors in USA
- Giannina Braschi
- Migdalia Cruz
- Aya de León
- Caridad “La Bruja” de la Luz
- María Teresa “Mariposa” Fernández
- Quiara Alegría Hudes
- Lawrence La Fountain-Stokes
- Luisita López Torregrosa
- Lin-Manuel Miranda
- Rodney Morales
- Raquel Salas Rivera
- José Luis Torres-Padilla
LISTEN TO THE NUEVOS HORIZONTES PODCAST ON DIASPORIC JOURNEYS
Migration, bilingualism, identity, movement, and the words that connect them—these are some of the themes that come to mind when opening Diasporic Journeys: Interviews with Puerto Rican Writers in the United States (Centro Press, 2023), edited by Carmen Haydée Rivera.
In this podcast, Carmen Haydée Rivera, Lola Rosario Aponte, and Jeffrey Herlihy-Mera discuss the Puerto Rican diasporic experience, the role of language in constructing transnational identities, and the many ways that movement—physical, linguistic, and creative—shapes contemporary Puerto Rican writing in the United States.
This episode and the New Horizons Institute were supported by the Teagle Foundation.
To listen to the NUEVOS HORIZONTES PODCAST ON DIASPORIC JOURNEYS, click here: https://podcasts.apple.com/dk/podcast/diasporic-journeys-interviews-with-puerto-rican/id1578262867?i=1000751610504
- “You have to do the work to understand Giannina Braschi…te hace crecer.” -Carmen Haydée Rivera
- “Things you didn’t know that were awakened in you all of a sudden” -Lola Rosatio Aponte
- UPR-RP Departamento de Inglés
- “We are in and out of languages constantly, it’s how our mind works.” -Carmen Haydée Rivera.
- “Interlanguaging” sin ello, no podemos percibir sin ese constante intercambio.” -Carmen Haydée Rivera
- Puerto Rican Voices in English: Interviews with Writers -Carmen Dolores Hernández.
- Yo Yo Boing, Giannina Braschi.
- Jorge Duany
- Juan Flores
- Fernando Picó
- Félix Matos
- Reverse Migration
- Nuyorican poets
- Jesús Colón
- Jeanine Cummins
- “Ode to the Diasporican.” -Mariposa Fernández
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