Introduction -- For the sake of love: Luisa Capetillo, anarchy, and Boricua literary history -- Boricua modernism: Arturo Schomburg and William Carlos Williams -- A Boricua in the stacks: an introduction to the life and work of Pura Teresa Belpré -- The Boricua novel: civil rights and "new school" Nuyorican narratives -- "I like to be in America" [sic]: three women's texts -- Ya deja eso! Toward an epi-fenomenal approach to Boricua cultural studies.