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Writing Puerto Rico

Our Decolonial Moment

  • Adopts an innovative critical/creative approach
  • Covers a multitude of disciplines, from literary and cultural studies to sociology
  • Represents a timely contribution to the study of Puerto Rico

Part of the book series: New Caribbean Studies (NCARS)

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Table of contents (16 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
  2. Introduction

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 1-12
  3. The Largest Mall in the Caribbean

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 13-19
  4. As Far as Manifestos Go

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 21-27
  5. How to Be in Another’s Debt

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 29-37
  6. How to Be Middle Class

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 39-42
  7. How to Become Governor

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 43-45
  8. How to Become Visible

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 47-52
  9. How to Reach a Point of No Return

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 53-62
  10. Regarding the Future

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 63-69
  11. Our Decolonial Moment

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 71-75
  12. How to Get “There”

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 77-81
  13. How to Get Even

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 83-86
  14. How to Feel Helpless

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 87-92
  15. How to Find Sustenance

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 93-95
  16. How to Travel

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 97-101
  17. Coda

    • Guillermo Rebollo Gil
    Pages 103-107
  18. Back Matter

    Pages 109-116

About this book

This book is a manifesto-like consideration of the potentialities of radical political thought and action in contemporary Puerto Rico. Framed within the context of the present economic crisis, of austerity measures, PROMESA and mass migration, this book engages recent literary, artistic and activist work on the island in order to highlight the manners in which such work—however precarious, innocuous and/or fleeting—fosters hope among audiences, artists, protesters and onlookers alike for a more egalitarian and just society. Autoethnographically grounded, informal in tone, and with an eye toward intersectionality, this book serves as a unique contribution to the field of Puerto Rican Studies, by offering alternate points of departure for emergent theorizing and intellectual production across academic disciplines.

Reviews

“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)

Authors and Affiliations

  • Universidad del Este, Carolina, Puerto Rico

    Guillermo Rebollo Gil

About the author

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. 

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Hardcover Book USD 64.99
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