Colonialism And Narrative In Puerto Rico
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Colonialism And Narrative In Puerto Rico
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Author : Victor C. Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2004
Colonialism And Narrative In Puerto Rico written by Victor C. Simpson and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Literary Collections categories.
This book analyzes the effect of the colonial experience on the protagonists in the novels of Pedro Juan Soto, a renowned author of the Puerto Rican «Generation of 1950». Arguing - in keeping with Soto's generational and personal pessimism - that the protagonists are anti-heroes who struggle with their environment and succumb to it in different ways, it acknowledges that the themes of the Puerto Rican novel are firmly rooted in the island's reality, and offers a cogent review of the literary and socio-political context against which Soto's work must be understood. It also inserts Soto into the canon of post-colonial writers while foregrounding his realist approach to characterization, which is the author's means of articulating his social concerns.
The History Of Puerto Rico
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Author : R. A. Van Middeldyk
language : en
Publisher: DigiCat
Release Date : 2022-05-28
The History Of Puerto Rico written by R. A. Van Middeldyk and has been published by DigiCat this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-05-28 with History categories.
This book introduces the history of the Taino Indians. Columbus came to Puerto Rico on his second voyage to the New World in 1493. There he found the Taino Indians, who mistakenly showed him the local abundance and wealth. Their fate was doomed ever since. The Taino Indians were not a laborious race to begin with. But after Puerto Rico was established as a colonial stronghold, they survived poverty, plagues and hurricanes on their own.
War Against All Puerto Ricans
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Author : Nelson A Denis
language : en
Publisher: Bold Type Books
Release Date : 2015-04-07
War Against All Puerto Ricans written by Nelson A Denis and has been published by Bold Type Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-07 with Political Science categories.
The powerful, untold story of the 1950 revolution in Puerto Rico and the long history of U.S. intervention on the island, that the New York Times says "could not be more timely." In 1950, after over fifty years of military occupation and colonial rule, the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico staged an unsuccessful armed insurrection against the United States. Violence swept through the island: assassins were sent to kill President Harry Truman, gunfights roared in eight towns, police stations and post offices were burned down. In order to suppress this uprising, the US Army deployed thousands of troops and bombarded two towns, marking the first time in history that the US government bombed its own citizens. Nelson A. Denis tells this powerful story through the controversial life of Pedro Albizu Campos, who served as the president of the Nationalist Party. A lawyer, chemical engineer, and the first Puerto Rican to graduate from Harvard Law School, Albizu Campos was imprisoned for twenty-five years and died under mysterious circumstances. By tracing his life and death, Denis shows how the journey of Albizu Campos is part of a larger story of Puerto Rico and US colonialism. Through oral histories, personal interviews, eyewitness accounts, congressional testimony, and recently declassified FBI files, War Against All Puerto Ricans tells the story of a forgotten revolution and its context in Puerto Rico's history, from the US invasion in 1898 to the modern-day struggle for self-determination. Denis provides an unflinching account of the gunfights, prison riots, political intrigue, FBI and CIA covert activity, and mass hysteria that accompanied this tumultuous period in Puerto Rican history.
Culture And Customs Of Puerto Rico
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Author : Javier A. Galván
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2009-03-20
Culture And Customs Of Puerto Rico written by Javier A. Galván and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-03-20 with Social Science categories.
This exciting addition to the Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean series provides readers with an all-encompassing look at contemporary life in Puerto Rico. Having always been under the watchful eyes of other colonies and countries, Puerto Rico's own customs and traditions have managed to flourish throughout the ages, culturally uniting what is a politically divided island. In addition to gaining an understanding of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the continental United States, students can explore extensive narrative chapters that cover contemporary religion, cuisine, sports, media, cinema, literature, performing arts, and visual arts. An essential for high school and public library shelves, Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico is the perfect research resource for students and general readers. This exciting addition to the Culture and Customs of Latin America and the Caribbean series provides readers with an exhaustive look at contemporary life in Puerto Rico. Having always been under the watchful eyes of other colonies and countries, Puerto Rico's own customs and traditions have managed to flourish throughout the ages, culturally uniting what is a politically divided island. In addition to gaining an understanding of Puerto Rico's political relationship with the continental United States, students can explore the small island nation's history with Spain during the colonial era. This fascinating volume provides illustrative narrative chapters on religious practices in Puerto Rico, as well as religious and secular festivals. Social customs, such as sports, cuisine, gender issues, family values, and nightlife, are discussed in depth. Extensive coverage on the media, performing arts, cinema, visual arts, and literature provides students with a solid foundation in Puerto Rican past and contemporary culture. An essential for high school and public library shelves, Culture and Customs of Puerto Rico is the perfect research resource for students and general readers.
Discrimination Evasion And Livability In Four New York Puerto Rican Narratives
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Author : Marta S. Rivera Monclova
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2010
Discrimination Evasion And Livability In Four New York Puerto Rican Narratives written by Marta S. Rivera Monclova and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010 with American literature categories.
Discrimination, Evasion, and Livability in Four New York Puerto Rican Narratives contends that the conditions that inform and constrain the construction of Puerto Rican identity are always themselves informed and constrained by the colonial status of Puerto Rico and that the conditions of colonialism are deeply, and sometimes invisibly, imbricated within the forms of discrimination that Puerto Ricans experience. This project considers four primary texts: Down These Mean Streets by Piri Thomas (1967), Yo-Yo Boing! (1998) by Giannina Braschi, The Lamentable Journey of Omaha Bigelow into the Impenetrable Loisaida Jungle (2004) by Edgardo Vega Yunqué, and Picture Me Rollin' (2005) by Sofia Quintero writing as Black Artemis. Hegemonic constructions of Puerto Rican lives frequently focus on the effects of the Puerto Rican presence in New York, while denying the experiences of the people themselves. I argue that Puerto Rican narrative seeks to create a competing construction of Puerto Rican experiences and frequently accomplishes this goal by reflecting, transforming, and distorting the hegemonic constructions, as well as questioning and controverting them.
Afro Puerto Ricans In The Short Story
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Author : Victor C. Simpson
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang
Release Date : 2006
Afro Puerto Ricans In The Short Story written by Victor C. Simpson and has been published by Peter Lang this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006 with Fiction categories.
"This anthology is the first of its kind on Puerto Rican literature. The comprehensive introduction traces the history of the representation of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the short story, paying special attention to circumstances that developed - particularly during the decade of the sixties - and the manner in which these circumstances influenced the portrayal of Afro-Puerto Ricans in the island's literature. The stories are chosen in order to illustrate the effect of this influence."--BOOK JACKET.
Boricua Literature
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Author : Lisa Sánchez-González
language : en
Publisher: NYU Press
Release Date : 2001-08
Boricua Literature written by Lisa Sánchez-González and has been published by NYU Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001-08 with Literary Criticism categories.
Since the invasion and colonization of Puerto Rico in 1898, all Puerto Ricans are both American citizens and colonial subjects by birth according to international law. Over a third of this population currently lives in the continental U.S. forming one of the nation's most significant "minority" communities. Yet no complete study of mainland Puerto Rican—or Boricua—literature has been written. Until now. Boricua Literature is the first literary history of the Puerto Rican colonial diaspora. The result of a decade of research in archives and special collections in the Caribbean and in the U.S., Lisa Sánchez González argues that the writing of the Puerto Rican diaspora should be considered an integral field of study. Covering 100 years of Boricua literary history, each chapter looks at the single writer or group of writers who are most emblematic of their respective generation, from William Carlos Williams and Arturo Schomburg, to latina feminism and salsa music. The story of an American community of color, Boricua Literature is also about contemporary critical race and gender studies. Unlike virtually all studies concerning mainland Puerto Rican writing, Lisa Sánchez González is less concerned with "cultural identity" than with unearthing a substantive cultural intellectual history. The first explicitly literary historical analysis of Boricua Literature, this definitive study proposes a new and discreet area of literary historical research in American studies.
Fantasy Island
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Author : Ed Morales
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2019-09-10
Fantasy Island written by Ed Morales and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-10 with History categories.
A crucial, clear-eyed accounting of Puerto Rico's 122 years as a colony of the US. Since its acquisition by the US in 1898, Puerto Rico has served as a testing ground for the most aggressive and exploitative US economic, political, and social policies. The devastation that ensued finally grew impossible to ignore in 2017, in the wake of Hurricane María, as the physical destruction compounded the infrastructure collapse and trauma inflicted by the debt crisis. In Fantasy Island, Ed Morales traces how, over the years, Puerto Rico has served as a colonial satellite, a Cold War Caribbean showcase, a dumping ground for US manufactured goods, and a corporate tax shelter. He also shows how it has become a blank canvas for mercenary experiments in disaster capitalism on the frontlines of climate change, hamstrung by internal political corruption and the US federal government's prioritization of outside financial interests. Taking readers from San Juan to New York City and back to his family's home in the Luquillo Mountains, Morales shows us the machinations of financial and political interests in both the US and Puerto Rico, and the resistance efforts of Puerto Rican artists and activists. Through it all, he emphasizes that the only way to stop Puerto Rico from being bled is to let Puerto Ricans take control of their own destiny, going beyond the statehood-commonwealth-independence debate to complete decolonization.
Reproducing Empire
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Author : Laura Briggs
language : en
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Release Date : 2003-01-20
Reproducing Empire written by Laura Briggs and has been published by Univ of California Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003-01-20 with History categories.
Original and compelling, Laura Briggs's Reproducing Empire shows how, for both Puerto Ricans and North Americans, ideologies of sexuality, reproduction, and gender have shaped relations between the island and the mainland. From science to public policy, the "culture of poverty" to overpopulation, feminism to Puerto Rican nationalism, this book uncovers the persistence of concerns about motherhood, prostitution, and family in shaping the beliefs and practices of virtually every player in the twentieth-century drama of Puerto Rican colonialism. In this way, it sheds light on the legacies haunting contemporary debates over globalization. Puerto Rico is a perfect lens through which to examine colonialism and globalization because for the past century it has been where the United States has expressed and fine-tuned its attitudes toward its own expansionism. Puerto Rico's history holds no simple lessons for present-day debate over globalization but does unearth some of its history. Reproducing Empire suggests that interventionist discourses of rescue, family, and sexuality fueled U.S. imperial projects and organized American colonialism. Through the politics, biology, and medicine of eugenics, prostitution, and birth control, the United States has justified its presence in the territory's politics and society. Briggs makes an innovative contribution to Puerto Rican and U.S. history, effectively arguing that gender has been crucial to the relationship between the United States and Puerto Rico, and more broadly, to U.S. expansion elsewhere.
Puerto Rico Under Colonial Rule
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Author : Ramon Bosque-Perez
language : en
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Release Date : 2006-06-01
Puerto Rico Under Colonial Rule written by Ramon Bosque-Perez and has been published by State University of New York Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-06-01 with Political Science categories.
Puerto Rico, one of the last and most populated colonial territories in the world, occupies a relatively unique position. Its lengthy interaction with the United States has resulted in the long-term acquisition of expanded legal rights and relative political stability. At the same time, that interaction has simultaneously seen political intolerance and the denial of basic rights, particularly toward those who have challenged colonialism. In Puerto Rico under Colonial Rule, academics and intellectuals from the fields of political science, history, sociology, and law examine three themes: evidence of state-sponsored political persecution in the twentieth century, contemporary issues, and the case of Vieques.