Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico

by Magali Roy-Fequiere, Luz del Alba Acevedo (Editor), Juan Flores (Editor), Emilio Pantojas-Garcia (Editor)

Overview

In this book, Magali Roy-Fequiere casts new light on the Generacion del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, she focuses on the interlocking themes of nationalism, gender, class, and race in the articulation of early twentieth-century Puerto Rican identity.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781592132300
Publisher:	Temple University Press
Publication date:	02/13/2004
Series:	Puerto Rican Studies
Pages:	328
Product dimensions:	7.10(w) x 10.38(h) x 1.05(d)

Table of Contents

	Acknowledgments	ix
	Introduction	1
1.	Nationalism Revisited: Deciphering the Creole Imaginary	13
2.	Compromising Positions: Reconstituting the Creole Gender Hierarchy	53
3.	Professional Women and the Refashioning of the Self	81
4.	The New Creolism: Three Responses to Pedreira	117
5.	The Nation as Male Fantasy: Emilio S. Belaval's Los Cuentos De La Universidad	151
6.	A Brave New (Discursive) World: Maria Cadilla De Martinez's Milestones of the Race	177
7.	Negrismo, Literary Criticism, and the Discourses of White Supremacy	197
8.	Speaking for and Speaking with: The Limits of Negrismo's Cultural Discourse	231
	Notes	263
	Index	301