Reviews for New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry

The average rating for New Paths to Raymond Carver: Critical Essays on His Life, Fiction, and Poetry based on 2 reviews is 2.5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2017-02-12 00:00:00 Lance Vestal This book follows several Puerto Rican authors of the PR diaspora and explores their work and contribution to the cultural context of Boricua literature. Sanchez offers passages from the books to support her statements about how these authors provide a window into the class structure of Puerto Rico and the subclass of American culture which they represent. The chapter on Arturo Schomburg and and William Carlos Williams opens a discourse for bi-racial authors, and their inability to "fit" one culture. This allows for the question of representation and who can appropriately write and represent Puerto Ricans.

Review # 2 was written on 2007-06-20 00:00:00 Barbara Kirkland Pretty decent history of the movement, and with it a good angle for viewing the more progressive half of the literary scene of the 1840s and 1850s. The focus is political and the style is that of a historian.