Latino Poetry (Critical Survey of Poetry)
Introduction
In the 1960’s and 1970’s, poets and other writers of Mexican, Puerto Rican, and Cuban descent formed three discrete groups in literary response to various social, historical, and cultural impulses in the United States at that time. The Civil Rights movement inspired literary Chicanos and Puerto Ricans (especially the Nuyoricans, as Puerto Ricans in New York were known) to write about their experiences in their own voices, which frequently were excluded from mainstream publications. The Cuban American poets of this period wrote primarily in Spanish and in...
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