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This article analyzes the lesbian characters in Puerto Rican narrative and examines the strategies of visibility of sexual minorities. In the texts studied, lesbians are monstrous figures that reactivate topics of the gothic or science fiction tradition: vampires, zombies, serial killers or cyborgs. In so doing, they are at the crossroads of genres and gender, creating epistemic spaces with diffuse contours. These contributions to Puerto Rican lesbian literature thus participate in the revision of the national literary canon and the redefinition of its borders, through strategies of fragmentation, hybridization and literary zombification.

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Los pies de San Juan by Eduardo Lalo is a hybrid work: it has been variously described as a photographic essay, an artist book, a chronicle-book, a performance album and a book-object. In this work emerges an obsession for detail and fragmentation, which makes it impossible to construct a global image of a San Juan of Puerto Rico that is explored on foot, camera at hand, in search of marks in the ground, waste and traces of decadence, rather than through panoramic views. This essay will analyze this sense of fragmentation and waste, taking into account the photographic repertoire but mainly focusing on the written reflections that accompany it. The cityscape is constructed as an "antipostcard", in which the parts selected never allow us to see a whole, and in which Lalo's cosmovision of the subject "being" the city establishes a fusion between body and city. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Este ensayo examina el poemario Huracanada (2018), de la escritora puertorriqueña Mayra Santos-Febres, desde una perspectiva ecocrítica. Específicamente, estudia cómo estos poemas resaltan en qué medida la devastación que provocó el huracán María en Puerto Rico en 2017 no debe atribuirse simple y simplistamente al poder de las fuerzas naturales, sino también a un desquilibrio profundo y sistémico en la relación entre seres humanos y la naturaleza, tanto en la isla como globalmente. Este desequilibrio ha contribuido a la intensificación de fenómenos como los huracanes—algo que la literatura científica sobre los efectos del calentamiento global antropogénico señala enfáticamente—y a los catastróficos efectos de estos eventos sobre las poblaciones más vulnerables del planeta. Más aún: el poemario muestra cómo, tras este tipo de desastres, los justificados intentos de asegurar la sobrevivencia y la prosperidad de diversas poblaciones—incluyendo las más vulnerables—frecuentemente implican la colaboración con un sistema económico, industrial y tecnológico que es cómplice del problema que se intenta resolver. En mi lectura, Huracanada es una invitación a transformar el paradigma del desarrollismo tecnológico-industrial que domina globalmente, y a sustituirlo por modelos sostenibles de subsistencia y comunidad.

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This paper aims to analyze the short story "Oso Blanco", by Puerto Rican writer Mayra Santos-Febres, in order to perceive uncanny elements, which work as discursive strategy that reveals the communion of bodies unable to perform tangible approximations. The uncanny seems to constitute an epistemological metaphor in the image of the woman imprisoned in a bureaucratic cycle, or in the arm that gains autonomy from its body, or even in the transformation of the penitentiary building into the narrator and protagonist of the plot. The senses of the unusual gain historical and political dimensions, pointing out, as epistemological metaphors, to the fragmented subjects. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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This article proposes that the novel Luz y sombra (1903) by Ana Roqué develops an intertextual dialogue with La muñeca (1895) by Carmela Eulate Sanjurjo. This dialogue recognizes both La muñeca's artistic quality as well as its intent to transform the narrative in order to deliver a clearer moral message to its readers. While high levels of ambiguity and irony characterize Carmela Eulate's novel -features which are responsible for a wide range of diverse and even contradictory interpretations- Ana Roque's text develops a pedagogic discourse that avoids ambiguity. Her message emphasizes the importance of an education that allows women to choose a husband based on love and companionship instead of economic and social goals, so that marriage becomes the basis of a society capable of progressing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article analyzes the structure of loss in U.S. Puerto Rican literature in the historical and mythical persona of the jíbaro/a, a symbol of national and cultural identity of Puerto Ricans. Topics discussed include the apostheosis of the bind that U.S. colonial racialization places on a diasporic Puerto Rican, trope of the nostalgic jíbaro/a and the effect of intertextuality on racialization.

one of the key elements of the rhetorics of Antiquity was puritas. Puritas consists of grammatical correctness in linguistic expression, it is the locutionary quality which tends to maintain the uncontaminated purity of language. This linguistic phenomenon presents from the end of the twentieth century an untimely normative effort in the context of a postmodern era marked by the uncontrollable flows of persons and languages, a phenomenon that is clearly reflected in all its complexity and its constitutive tensions in the gestation and evolution of hybrid languages such as Spanglish and the subsequent production of marginal literary systems like nuyorican poetry. The nuyorican poetry of authors such as Tato Laviera (1951 -) sets a rhetoric of Spanglish as a language of extraterritoriality and interstitiality, a rhetoric of impurity and delight that becomes a "minor literature" in its Deleuzian sense. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

A literary criticism of the book "Down These Mean Streets" by Piri Thomas, is presented. It mentions that the book poses the question about the location of US Afro-Boricua cultural production in the border zones for the exploration of the literary articulation of Afro-Hispanic and Afro-Puerto Rican traditions. It also analyzes the racial discourses in the U.S. in view of unfolding immigration and demographic trends in the twenty-first century.

A literary critique is presented for the 2003 Latin American novel "The Meaning of Consuelo," by Judith Ortiz-Cofer, addressing its depiction of the ethno-national identity of Puerto Rico through the women characters of the book. The relationship "between woman and nation" as outlined and criticized throughout the novel is analyzed, highlighting the allegorical representation of nations and cultures through various female characters.

This article offers a literary criticism for the general themes evident in and unique to Puerto Rican literature. The author comments on Puerto Rico's history of struggle and resistance to colonization, particularly from the United States. He describes the escrituras raras, a writing style that presents itself as strange, eccentric, and difficult to understand and that serves to symbolize Puerto Rican identity.

The article presents an essay on Puerto Rican literature, culture, and concepts of Puerto Rican identity, discussing 28 pieces of writing published since 2006. Themes and topics examined include gender perspectives, writing in the U.S., and contextualization in Latin America and the Caribbean. Ángel Quintero Rivera, Wanda Cosme, and Ana Lydia Vega are some of the Puerto Rican authors whose writing is analyzed.

This article explores the use of affective spatial imagination in Puerto Rican poetry written after 1952. Poetic practices shared by English language, Spanish language, and oral traditions encompassing both English and Spanish are examined and the use of Puerto Rican geography is discussed. The diversity of the Puerto Rican poetic tradition, the adaptivity and fluidity of Puerto Rican literature, and to connection between Puerto Rican poetry and political status are explored. Particular focus is given to the manner in which Puerto Rican poets explore various identities and spaces through shared imagery.

The article discusses how critics considered "Zona: Carga y Descarga" as a unique eye-openner in the literary history of Puerto Rico after new modes of reading and writing were tried. The authors and editors of the journal agreed that it is an important contribution to the history of Puerto Rican literature especially during the time of crisis. The author places the journal in the larger context of what other writers would call a minor literature. These writers pointed three characteristics of a minor literature such as impossible in practice, political in range and collective in value.

The article explores anarchist literature from Cuba and Puerto Rico and the incorporation of violence and violent struggle related to anarchist movements. The author reflects on independence from Spain and struggles against state-sponsored violence, war, militarism, and the rise of obligatory military service laws. The article discusses literary depictions of sabotage, banditry, assassination, bombings and revolutions in relation to the revolutionary imaginations of Caribbean radicals. Other topics include the influence of the Cuban War for Independence and the Mexican Revolution.

Presents literary criticism for the book "The Line of the Sun" by Judith Ortiz Cofer and how the book presents a unique presentation of Puerto Rican literature in English. The author draws on critic Michel Foucault's idea of transgression to inform her own argument about how the novel bridges the past and present. Ortiz Cofer drew on her own past in writing the novel to explain how the characters in the book navigate their positions as Puerto Ricans living in the U.S.

A literary criticism of the book "A Puerto Rican in New York and Other Sketches," by Jesús Colón is presented. The criticism asserts that the structure of the book reflects the Catholic ritual of the rosary, in particular the "novena." The criticism suggests that, in choosing this structure, Colón, a socialist, may have been concealing his Catholic faith.

The article discusses the foundation of Puerto Rican literature and analyzes the story "La loca de la casa," found in the book "La casa de la loca," by Marta Aponte Alsina. Several topics are mentioned within the text, including the hybridity of being a colonial subject, racial prejudice, and the fight for equality between the sexes. To better understand the protagonists in "La loca," the author analyzes the works of Puerto Rican author Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, considered by many as the father of modern Puerto Rican literature.

The article focuses on the borderland state-form in contemporary Puerto Rican literature. Luis Muñoz Marín, patriarch founder of the Puerto Rican state, provides perspective on the relationship of nation and state in the Puerto Rican culture and raises several questions on the discourses of identity. According to the author, the state-form designed to weaken nationalist ideology dismantles national formation and supports cultural community..

In his classic study The Way of the World Franco Moretti argues that the characteristic journey from youth to maturity that the Bildungsroman narrates amounts to a symbolic representation of the integration of the bourgeoisie self into modernity. According to Moretti, this genre becomes obsolete by the end of the First World War, when the loss of faith in the civilizing ideals of modernity make it impossible to represent integration into a coherent social whole. However, many critics argue that the genre is being revitalized by writers who stand in the margins of modern society due to their gender, race or class. Nilda, by, Nicolasa Mohr, illustrates the transformations the Bildungsroman undergoes in the hands of the US born-and-raised Puerto Rican writer of the second half of the 20th century. In Nilda the education of the heroine does not symbolize the poor immigrant's successful acceptance and integration into mainstream culture. On the contrary, the awakening of the self serves as a metaphor for the appearance of a distinctive Puerto Rican space within the American literary experience, a complex space from which Mohr reaffirms her heritage while at the same time she critically examines pervading patriarchal roles within Puerto Rican culture. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This essay compares similar themes between the novel "The House on the Lagoon," by Rosario Ferré and the play "Vejigantes," by Francisco Arriví. The corresponding themes of rape versus seduction are analyzed as well as Puerto Rican racial symbols in the folk and poetic traditions. The metaphor of the grandmother as a means to explain and expose African heritage in Puerto Rico is apparent in Arriví's play. Ferré's portrayal of a turban-wearing woman also suggests the hidden racial identity in Puerto Rico.

The article presents an analysis of the ideas of hybrid subjects and heterogeneous writing in Latin American literature, with a focus on Puerto Rican novels "La importancia de llamarse Daniel Santos" by Luis Rafael Sánchez and "Yo-yo Boing!" by Giannina Braschi. It is the author's view that both novels embody a new heterogeneity in Latin America literature and culture, that goes beyond the notion of mestizaje or cultural dependence. Topics include contemporary diaspora, bilingualism, and globalization.

The article examines the theme of wisdom among female characters in the works of Puerto Rican author Nemesio R. Canales. Women's rights have been at the forefront of Canales' career, both as an author and as a delegate in the House of Representatives of Puerto Rico. Feminism and women's rights are two themes that are often overlooked by critics, who consider his political activity to be of more importance than his writings. The article explores and compares several of Canales' works, such as "Paliques" and "El héroe galopante," and highlights references relating to feminism and women's rights.

Examines how and in what context Latina literature was being taught in the United States. Views of Latin American women authors on Latina literature; Examination of the contributions of the Puerto Rican literature and the work of Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferre to the North American literary tradition.

Examines some of the projects and aspirations of a group of female writers and educators as they intervened in the male-controlled literary, political and intellectual space in Puerto Rico. Literate Puerto Rican women's quest for empowerment in the early twentieth century; Desire of Creole women for a restricted modernization of the gender system; Struggle for suffrage; Organization of the Liga Feminea.

Investigates the authorship of `Memorias de Bernardo Vega,' edited by Cesar Andreu Iglesias. Transformation of the text about the growth of the first Puerto Rican community in New York from a novel to a memoir; Relationship between Vega and Iglesias; Speculations about Vega's reasons for writing a novel from Iglesias' point of view.

Argues that while Luis Rafael Sanchez's 1976 novel "La guaracha del Macho Camacho" represents a radical departure from the preceding conception of literary discourse as a vehicle for cultural self-definition in Puerto Rico, it does not renounce completely its status as an epistemological instrument. Allegorical component of the novel; The novel's endeavor to offer a synchronic picture of Puerto Rican society by portraying itself as taking place in one instant.