Family Matters: Puerto Rican Women Authors on the Island and the Mainland

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Index Acosta-Belén, Edna, 18, 23, 27, 135, 137, 150–151, 154, 181n7, 204n7, 207n25. See also Puerto Ricans in the United States (Acosta-Belén and Santiago) Afra-jíbara experience, 121–122 Afro–Puerto Ricans (afropuertorriqueños), 10, 53, 190– 191n5 afuera (outside the island), 3 Albizu Campos, Pedro, 16, 35–36 Alexander, M. Jacqui, 6, 130, 131, 136–137, 155, 207n26 Ambert, Alba: context of writing, 24; feminist project of, 166–167; la gran familia metaphor of, 4; selfidentification of, 73; work: A Perfect Silence, 101, 137, 160–167, 203n63 Americanization: components highlighted in Felices días, 115–116; education as means of, 18, 30, 31; la gran familia deployed against, 29–31, 39–43; in Maldito amor, 66–67; paternalist rhetoric against, 33–35; Spanish language as resistance to, 48, 188– 189n68; violence of, 122–124. See also colonialism; English language; U.S.– Puerto Rican colonial relations Anderson, Benedict, 57, 106 Aparicio, Frances, 25, 26, 48, 50, 82, 117, 180n8, 182n16, 183n27, 193n30 autobiography, 99–104, 117, 197–198n18. See also bildungsroman Ave/Eva paradigm. See virgin/whore trope Ayala, César. See Puerto Rico in the American Century (Ayala and Bernabé) Azize-Vargas, Yamila, 18 el balcón (the front porch or balcony) symbol, 106–107, 199n29 Barradas, Efraín, 27, 43, 181n5, 189n69, 204n8 barrios and arrabales (slums), 23, 37, 126–129, 203n63 Belaval, Emilio S., 32, 33–35, 51, 54–55 Belpré, Pura, 161 Bernabé, Rafael. See Puerto Rico in the American Century (Ayala and Bernabé) bildungsroman (coming-of-age narrative): Felices días as urban version of, 105–116; of island and diaspora, compared, 101–104; La segunda hija as, 142; When I Was Puerto Rican as rural version of, 118–128. See also autobiography blackness, 19, 32, 62–65, 82–83, 193n30 blacks: incorporated into “nation,” 30– 31, 185n37; migration to island, 56–58; self-censorship of, 53, 190–191n5 Blanco, Tomás, 32–33, 53–55 blanqueamiento, desire for, 52–53, 54, 63, 64. See also whiteness Bose, Christine, 23, 137, 207n25 boundaries, paradox of, 106–107. See also frontera intranacional Bourdieu, Pierre, 130–133, 149, 153, 156, 157, 158, 207n27, 208n31 Burgos, Julia de, 181n9 Buscaglia, José, 1–2, 179n1 campesina, 121–122. See also jíbaro; rural communities Capetillo, Luisa, 18, 161 224 Index by, 7; island’s place in imaginary of, 119; island writer’s depiction of, 142; mending memory by narrating story of, 117–129; national imaginary’s exclusion of, 46–48; “nation” redefined to include, 24, 27–28; official rhetoric on, 41–42; popular music of, 25; postmodernos (intellectuals) in, 10, 27, 43–45; racialization of, 57–58; self-identification of, 73. See also island community; migrants and migration; returnees diaspora literature: favored genres of, 101; further questions about, 174–176; insular acceptance of music and painting but not, 25; island-centered perspective in, 74; migration explored in, 84–86; Puerto Rican past rescued in, 106–108, 110–116; self-life-writing mode of, 98–99; virgin/whore trope in, 23 diaspora women writers: autobiography’s centrality for, 194n41; decolonization and, 135, 150–152; differences between first vs. later generations of, 202n57; on female agency, sexuality, and desire, 153–160; folklore and national history utilized by, 79–80, 195n45; la gran familia challenged by, 72–73, 119–121; myth of American Dream reinforced by, 161; new awareness as historical subjects, 117; prejudice experienced in Puerto Rico by (see returnees); as recuperating women’s history, 23; scholarship’s focus on 1990s for, 6; social status of, 138–139; timing of high point for, 24; as writing against the void, 97–104. See also Ambert, Alba; Mohr, Nicholasa; Ortíz Cofer, Judith; Santiago, Esmeralda Díaz Quiñones, Arcadio, 27, 33, 90 División de Educación de la Comunidad (DIVEDCO): challenge to ideal underlying, 123–124; círculo democrático of, 118, 123, 127, 202n59; family/nation rhetoric of, 9–10; la gran familia deployed in booklet series of, 39–42, 169–170, 171–172, 173; slums as outside of focus, 127–128. See also Marqués, René domestic abuse, 160–167, 208n32. See also violence Caribbean region, contact zones in, 11, 56–58, 200n37 Casa de España (Puerto Rico), 107–108, 113, 200n34 la casa/house: cultural meanings of, 87– 89; demythification of, 152; displaced version of, 125–129; la gran familia parallel to, 111–113; resignification of, 74–79; as totalizing metaphor, 105–108 la casa patriarcal: Felices días and fall...