This book takes part in the scriptural tradition that discusses the problem of writing without the support of an Afro-Puerto Rican literary tradition and theoretical thought, while trying to help correct this flaw that it identifies as an elliptical mark of the tradition itself. Rodr guez Torres's narrative is to date the most extensive written testimony on the Afro-Puerto Rican condition within insular literature. His narrative says little about skin color, and less about racial conflict. In his texts, one can read the repression of a racial discourse in the consciousness of black and mixed race characters. At a global level, the analysis that we offer of Rodriguez Torres' texts also involves two different reading; one that, in general terms, is influenced by the model of Michel Foucault, and another that follows the theoretical paradigm of Michel de Certeau. In the first, the discourses on race and identity are addressed as a determinant of the ontological crisis represented by the Afro-Viecan writer. This is a reading interested primarily in decoding a response of a strategic order. The second reading, on the other hand, is activated with the recording of the difficulty encountered in the exercise of speaking and writing and the verification of the partial failure of the Afrocentric writing project. Silence and failure come to be a demonstration of the repression of the black voice in history and literature.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1930744307
ISBN13:9781930744301
Release Date:January 2007
Publisher:Instituto Internacional de Literatura Iberoam
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