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This book represents the vitality, diversity, and distinctiveness of contemporary Puerto Rican letters and writers. It is concerned with the image and identity of the Puerto Rican as it is reflected in literature.

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This collection includes the most important and relevant papers presented at the First Public Conference on Images and Identities: The Puerto Rican in Two Contexts, held at Rutgers University and the Newark Public Library in April 1983. The first overview of this field, it gives specific information about acquisition of relevant Puerto Rican literary publications, and it helps to fill a significant void in Puerto Rican literature criticism in English. These essays explore the most important facets of Puerto Rican literature: images and identities, authors' voices, Puerto Rican literature written in English, interrelations between Puerto Rican literature and other Hispanic literatures in the US, translations, and Puerto Rican literature in public schools. This fascinating and well-edited book discusses seminal texts and issues in a plain style. The footnotes and bibliographies of these carefully researched essays offer additional and detailed information on the best research done to date on this subject. Now the definitive volume on Puerto Rican literary criticism in English, it supersedes Borinquen: An Anthology of Puerto Rican Literature, ed. by Maria T. Babin and Stan Steiner (1974). A valuable addition to any collection of Puerto Rican literature, indispensable for Puerto Rican scholars. Recommended for research and use at any college level and for public libraries.-L.L. Pinto, Bronx Community College, CUNY