Writing Puerto Rico: Our Decolonial Moment

ISBN-13: 9783319929750 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 116 str.

Guillermo Rebollo Gil

Opis

This book is a manifesto-like consideration of the potentialities of radical political thought and action in contemporary Puerto Rico.

Recenzje

"This is an important book, both in its content and in its form. It illuminates what otherwise (and usually is) missed in current social and cultural analysis on Puerto Rico." (Manuel S. Almeida, CENTRO: Journal of the Center for Puerto Rican Studies, Vol. 31 (2), 2019)

Spis treści

1. Introduction.

2. The Largest Mall in the Caribbean.

3. As Far as Manifestos Go.

4. How to Be in Another's Debt.

5. How to Be Middle Class.

6. How to Become Governor.

7. How to Become Visible.

8.How to Reach a Point of No Return.

9. Regarding the Future.

10. Our Decolonial Moment.

11. How to Get ‘There’.

12. How to Get Even.

13. How to Feel Helpless.

14. How to Find Sustenance.

15. How to Travel.- 16. Coda.

O autorze

Guillermo Rebollo Gil is assistant professor and researcher at the Jesús T. Piñero Center for Social Research at Universidad del Este, Puerto Rico. He is the author of several academic, creative non-fiction and poetry books. He holds a PhD in Sociology from the University of Florida and a JD from the University of Puerto Rico.