"A Puerto Rican writer from New York is doubly dislocated: first, there is dislocation from Puerto Rico; secondly, there is Puerto Rico’s dislocation from itself. Puerto Rico is a colony of the United States. It may be a truism that you can’t go home again, but it’s especially true when home is an occupied territory. A Puerto Rican writer from New York, like myself, is twice alienated. I never forget that in this country I belong to a marginalized, silenced, even despised community; yet, in Puerto Rico, as a “Nuyorican” poet, I am marginalized again, for reasons related and unrelated to the island’s colonial status…"
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Academics from the United StatesEssayists from the United StatesPoets from the United StatesEditors from the United StatesHispanic Americans
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On the Puerto Rican writer in “Interview with Martin Espada” in Foreign Policy in Focus (2007 Apr 4)
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