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