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National and cultural identity in Puerto Rican literature since Puerto Rico became a territory of the United States at the beginning of the twentieth century, conflicts between traditional Hispanic and Afro-Antillian culture, the increasing influence of the United States on island culture. Writers who leave Puerto Rico and impart outside perspectives on island life. The work of Antonio S. Pedreira. José Luis González's story "Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country." Mayra Santos-Febres's 2002 novel Cualquier miércoles soy tuya (Any Wednesday I'm Yours). The founding of the Nuyorican Poets Café in 1974. Tato Laviera's poem "My Graduation Speech" and Victor Hernández Cruz's "An Essay on William Carlos Williams." The life and work of the mid-twentieth-century poet Julia de Burgos.
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