"Collection of the best-known essays by one of the pioneer critics of US Puerto Rican literature. Some essays outline various stages in the historical development of Puerto Rican letters in the US while others focus on individual writers such as Bernardo Vega, Jesús Colón, Julia de Burgos, Pedro Pietri, Sandra María Esteves, Rosario Morales, Aurora Levins Morales, Martín Espada, Nicholasa Mohr, and Esmeralda Santiago"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.