This book explores representations of sentient-flesh -- flesh that holds consciousness of being -- in Puerto Rican women's literature. It considers how different literary devices can participate in the decolonization of the flesh as it is obfuscated by mappings of the 'body' fro…
"This book explores representations of sentient-flesh--flesh that holds consciousness of being--in Puerto Rican women's literature. It considers how different literary devices can participate in the decolonization of the flesh as it is obfuscated by mappings of the 'body' from t…
This book explores representations of sentient-flesh -- flesh that holds consciousness of being -- in Puerto Rican women's literature. It considers how different literary devices can participate in the decolonization of the flesh as it is obfuscated by mappings of the 'body' fro…
Cortijo's wake: El entierro de Cortijo
by Rodríguez Juliá, Edgardo, Duke University Press
fromDuke backfile
A lyrical narration and examination of the life and death of Rafael Cortijo, an Afro-Caribbean drummer whose group--Cortijo y su Combo--influenced Puerto Rican society and music.
This book is novelist Edgardo Rodriguez Julia's vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo (1928-1982). El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its original publication in Puerto Rico in 1983. An unparalleled Afro-P…
A lyrical narration and examination of the life and death of Rafael Cortijo, an Afro-Caribbean drummer whose group--Cortijo y su Combo--influenced Puerto Rican society and music.
This book is novelist Edgardo Rodriguez Julia's vivid description of the funeral of legendary Puerto Rican musician Rafael Cortijo (1928-1982). El entierro de Cortijo became an immediate bestseller following its original publication in Puerto Rico in 1983. An unparalleled Afro-P…
El Caribe y sus relaciones con España: políticas y sociedades en transformación (siglos …
by Hernández Palomo, José Jesús, Navarro García, Jesús Raúl, Vélez Oyola, Angel Luis, Cabrera Collazo, Rafael Luis, Espinosa Fernández, José Manuel, Simon Ruiz, Immaculada, Vidal Ortega, Antonino, Gallardo Saborido, Emilio J.
Set against the backdrop of contemporary US economic history, "Puerto Rico Is in the Heart"examines the emigration, labor, and political experiences of documentary photographer, human rights activist, and Puerto Rican community leader Frank Espada. The first-ever chronicle of Fr…
This book rethinks the social processes that violently refashioned Puerto Rican society in the first half of the twentieth century. Santiago-Valles explores how the new regime's socio-economic, political, and signification systems socially constructed the laboring poor of this C…
This book rethinks the social processes that violently refashioned Puerto Rican society in the first half of the twentieth century. Santiago-Valles explores how the new regime's socio-economic, political, and signification systems socially constructed the laboring poor of this C…
