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- Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael Sánchez
- Book
- 2017
- Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
- Series: North Carolina Studies in the Romance Languages and Literatures
summary
This book undertakes the most comprehensive and theoretically rigorous examination to date of Luis Rafael Sanchez's work in the context of cultural politics in Puerto Rico, and of the international and regional dimensions of Sanchez's work in relation to the unique status of Puerto Rico as a commonwealth and colony. It explores Sanchez's ambivalent position as a member of an intellectual elite, a spokesman for el pueblo, and a Puerto Rican mulatto whose working-class background allows him to highlight unprecedented possibilities for political agency within popular and mass culture.
Through analyses of Sanchez's theater, prose, and essays, John Perivolaris examines continuing struggles to define Puerto Rican cultural identity. His detailed readings illuminate Sanchez's ironically humorous deployment of traditionally conservative paradigms of national and individual identity in his postcolonial critique of racialization, gender, sexuality, and Hispanism in the colony. This study fills a long-standing need for an introduction to the work of a major Caribbean and Latin American writer.
Through analyses of Sanchez's theater, prose, and essays, John Perivolaris examines continuing struggles to define Puerto Rican cultural identity. His detailed readings illuminate Sanchez's ironically humorous deployment of traditionally conservative paradigms of national and individual identity in his postcolonial critique of racialization, gender, sexuality, and Hispanism in the colony. This study fills a long-standing need for an introduction to the work of a major Caribbean and Latin American writer.
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright Page
- pp. 1-8
- Acknowledgments
- pp. 11-12
- Abbreviations
- pp. 13-14
- Introduction
- pp. 15-30
- 5. Writing Class: The Essays
- pp. 147-180
- Bibliography
- pp. 192-208
Additional Information
ISBN
9780807882924
Related ISBN(s)
9780807892725, 9798890874269
MARC Record
OCLC
1080551378
Pages
208
Launched on MUSE
2019-01-02
Language
English
Open Access
No