INGL 3285: The Puerto Rican Experience
This course uses two primary texts: Boricuas: Influential Puerto Rican Writers – An Anthology (1995) edited by Roberto Santiago and Puerto Rico: What Everyone Needs to Know (2017) by Jorge Duany. Aside from these texts, the course also includes additional readings to complement and contextualize class discussion. Here is a list of additional readings:
Cartas en Jíbaro-English - Ernesto Ruiz Ortiz
Popular sayings/idiomatic expressions in Puerto Rico
Being Bilingual in Borinquen - Alicia Pousada
Puerto Ricans in the US - Edna Acosta Belen
Puerto Rican nation on the move (Introduction) – Jorge Duany
Qué assimilated, brother… - Juan Flores
A Nation of Women - Luisa Capetillo
Additional readings – Jesús Colón
Afterword to the 30th Anniversary Edition - Piri Thomas
Nuiyorican and Diasporican Literature - Jorge Duany
Poems - Maria Mariposa Fernandez
Poems – Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Immigrants – Aurora Levins Morales
Yo-yo boing – Giannina Braschi