Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Literature of the Puerto Rican Diaspora and Its Critical Practice -- Part I: Earlier Voices -- 1. Evolving Identities: Early Puerto Rican Writing in the United States and the Search for a New Puertorriqueñidad -- 2. For the Sake of Love: Luisa Capetillo, Anarchy, and Boricua Literary History -- 3. When "I" Became Ethnic: Ethnogenesis and Three Early Puerto Rican Diaspora Writers -- Part II: Political and Historical -- 4. Anarchism in the Work of Aurora Levins Morales -- 5. Puerto Rican Literature in a New Clave: Notes on the Emergence of DiaspoRican -- 6. The Political Left and the Development of Nuyorican Poetry -- Part III: Identity and Place -- 7. Literary Tropicalizations of the Barrio: Ernesto Quiñonez's Bodega Dreams and Ed Vega's Mendoza's Dreams -- 8. Discordant Differences: Strategic Puerto Ricanness in Pedro Pietri's Puerto Rican Obituary -- 9. "Borinkee" in Hawai'i: Rodney Morales Rides the Diaspora Wave to Transregional Imperial Struggle -- 10. Tato Laviera's Parody of La carreta: Reworking a Tradition of Docility -- Part IV: Home -- 11. Writing Home: Mapping Puerto Rican Collective Memory in The House on the Lagoon -- 12. Translating "Home" in the Work of Judith Ortiz Cofer -- 13. Getting There and Back: The Road, the Journey, and Home in Nuyorican Diaspora Literature -- Part V: Gender -- 14. Identity of the "Diasporican" Homosexual in the Literary Periphery -- 15. Manuel Ramos Otero's Queer Metafictional Resurrection of Julia de Burgos -- 16. Subverting the Mainland: Transmigratory Biculturalismin U.S. Puerto Rican Women's Fiction -- Contributors -- Index.