Those Black Paraos: Humor, Gufeo and Subversion in Nuyorican Poetry

Authors

  • Alejo López Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata – CONICET https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7533-4596

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.20420/PhilCan.2015.0035

Keywords:

Nuyorican poetry, humor, Víctor Hernández Cruz, Pedro Pietri, Tato Laviera

Abstract

Humor plays a central role in the poetics displayed by the poets of the Puerto Rican diaspora in the United States. The irreverent and impertinent humor (called by the Spanglish neologism gufeo) of poets like Victor Hernandez Cruz, Pedro Pietri or Tato Laviera exhibits the overwhelming power of this Afro-Antillean humor that goes through the Nuyorican poetic tradition, while it becomes one of the most effective tools in the counter-discursive cultural policy developed by this agonistic tradition.

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Author Biography

Alejo López, Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata – CONICET

Alejo López is a researcher at the Institute of Research in Humanities and Educational Sciences (Instituto de Investigación en Humanidades y Ciencias de la Educación, Universidad Nacional de La Plata-CONICET).

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2015-11-21

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López, A. (2015). Those Black Paraos: Humor, Gufeo and Subversion in Nuyorican Poetry. Philologica Canariensia, 21, 81–107. https://doi.org/10.20420/PhilCan.2015.0035

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