CENTRO Journal vol. XXVI, no. I, Spring 2014

CENTRO Journal

Since its first issue in 1987, the journal has proven to be one of Centro’s most important links to the public. A multidisciplinary, bilingual, refereed publication that welcomes scholarly articles in the humanities and the social and natural sciences, as well as interpretive essays, interviews, fiction, reviews and art. CENTRO Journal is published twice a year (spring and fall) and a yearly subscription includes both issues.

Tititle: Puerto Rican Literature of the Continent Recovered /
Literatura puertorriqueña del continente recuperada

Table of Contents

Guest Editor / Editor Invitado : Nicolás Kanellos

Introducción / Nicolás Kanellos  -  page 4

Lola Rodríguez de Tió o el perpetuo viaje. Apuntes patrios para una lectura de lo ‘transcaribeño’ / Mabel Cuesta — page 10

Su primer amor, primera novela por autor puertorriqueño publicada en Nueva York / Nicolás Kanellos - page 22

Discurso de origen e identidad en la narrativa de Joaquín Colón López / Patricia Ortiz-Owens — page 34

En babia de José I. de Diego Padró. De Nueva York a La Correspondencia de Puerto Rico / Alberto Ameal-Pérez — page 56

Lecturas desde el margen. En torno a las cartas de María Mas Pozo en el diario La Prensa de Nueva York / María Teresa Vera-Rojas — page 80

Pura Belpré lights the storyteller’s candle: Reframing the legacy of a legend and what it means for the fields of Latino/a studies and children’s literature / Marilisa Jiménez-García — page 110

The not-so-docile Puerto Rican: Students resist Americanization, 1930 / Ellie Walsh — page 148

La Vida en la colonia: Oscar Lewis, the culture of poverty, and the struggle for the meaning of the Puerto Rican nation / Steven Dike — page 172

Book Reviews — page 192

Acknowledgements— page 216