Puerto Rico: the pleasures and traumas of race

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Main Author: Alan West-Durán
Format: Artículo científico
Language:en
Published: The City University of New York 2005
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contents Puerto Rico: the pleasures and traumas of race Alan West-Durán Sociología race mulatto mulatez gender and race national identity Writers and thinkers as diverse as Tomás Blanco, Luis PalésMatos, José Luis González, and Isabelo Zenón Cruz havegrappled with the issue of the island’s Afro-Caribbeanidentity, ranging from denial (Blanco) to full affirmation(González). Apart from some historical background, thispaper will focus on perceptions of race in Puerto Ricanliterature (and music) from the island and the U.S. The latteris crucial not only because of U.S. colonial history on theisland, but also because of the racial experiences of PuertoRicans who have emigrated to (or were raised in) the U.S. Thepaper will examine the jíbaro myth, Palés Matos’s poetry, andthe representation of racial identities in authors such asAlejandro Tapia y Rivera, Tato Laviera, Rosario Ferré,Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, and Mayra Santos Febre. It willdraw on and critically discuss critics and thinkers fromPuerto Rico, other parts of the Caribbean (Ortiz, Fanon,Glissant, and Stuart Hall). 2005 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37717103 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XVII
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publishDate 2005
publisher The City University of New York
spellingShingle Puerto Rico: the pleasures and traumas of race
Alan West-Durán
Sociología
race
mulatto
mulatez
gender and race
national identity
Puerto Rico: the pleasures and traumas of race Alan West-Durán Sociología race mulatto mulatez gender and race national identity Writers and thinkers as diverse as Tomás Blanco, Luis PalésMatos, José Luis González, and Isabelo Zenón Cruz havegrappled with the issue of the island’s Afro-Caribbeanidentity, ranging from denial (Blanco) to full affirmation(González). Apart from some historical background, thispaper will focus on perceptions of race in Puerto Ricanliterature (and music) from the island and the U.S. The latteris crucial not only because of U.S. colonial history on theisland, but also because of the racial experiences of PuertoRicans who have emigrated to (or were raised in) the U.S. Thepaper will examine the jíbaro myth, Palés Matos’s poetry, andthe representation of racial identities in authors such asAlejandro Tapia y Rivera, Tato Laviera, Rosario Ferré,Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá, and Mayra Santos Febre. It willdraw on and critically discuss critics and thinkers fromPuerto Rico, other parts of the Caribbean (Ortiz, Fanon,Glissant, and Stuart Hall). 2005 artículo científico 1538-6279 https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37717103 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=377 Centro Journal application/pdf The City University of New York Centro Journal (Estados Unidos de América) Num.1 Vol.XVII
title Puerto Rico: the pleasures and traumas of race
topic Sociología
race
mulatto
mulatez
gender and race
national identity
url https://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=37717103