Puerto Rican writers residing within the usa and writing in English locate themselves astride cultures, languages, and methods of taking a look at existence. in addition they locate units of prejudice: racial, cultural, and linguistic bias within the usa; and rejection from Puerto Rican society. during this vivid selection of interviews, Hernandez offers pix of 14 of the main sought after Puerto Rican writers dwelling within the usa and gives the 1st probability for them to talk at once approximately their lives and their literary culture. Taken as a complete, the varied studies of those writers offer an perception into the results of early displacement from a countrywide tradition, and the way perceived prejudice and hostility can breed, in flip, both violence and hate, or a desire to excel and to communicate.
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