Research Catalog

Title

The representation of the jíbara in When I was Puerto Rican and Con valor y como dé lugar: memorias de una jíbara puertorriqueña / Jennet Rodríguez Betancourt.

Author

Rodríguez Betancourt, Jennet,

Publication

Munich : Lincom GmbH, 2017.

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Details

Description

109 pages; 21 cm.

Summary

"This work offers an overview of the representation of the Puerto Rican 'jíbara' in the autobiographical texts of two Puerto Rican women writers: 'When I Was Puerto Rican' by Esmeralda Santiago and 'Con Valor y Como Dé Lugar: Memorias de Una Jíbara Puertorriqueña' by Carmen Luisa Justiniano. It examines the Puerto Rican literary landscape from the nineteenth-century to the mid-twentieth-century in which the legendary figure of the country-dweller or 'jíbaro' has been present. Using Gaytri Chakravorty Spivak's powerful essay,"Can the Subaltern Speak?" (1988), as a source of theoretical departure provokes an inquiry of the Puerto Rican literary elite's appropriation and construction of the native subaltern peasant since more than often, the others' voices are displaced and replaced with their own somewhat compassionate, nonetheless observers' privileged voices."

Series Statement

LINCOM Studies in Language and Culture 05

Uniform Title

LINCOM studies in language and culture ; 05.

Subjects

• Santiago, Esmeralda > When I was Puerto Rican
• American literature > Puerto Rican authors > Themes, motives
• Justiniano, Carmen Luisa, 1918-1992 > Con valor y a como dé lugar
• Puerto Rican literature > Themes, motives
• Jíbaro (Puerto Rican identity) > In literature
• When I was Puerto Rican (Santiago, Esmeralda)

Note

• Originally presented as the author's doctoral dissertation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 105-109).

ISBN

• 9783862887699
• 3862887693

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library