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Women, Creole Identity
Roy-Fequiere, Magali. Ed(S): Flores, Juan; Pantojas-Garcia, Emilio
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Description for Women, Creole Identity
Paperback. Casts light on the Generacion del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, this book focuses on the interlocking themes of nationalism, gender, class, and race in the articulation of early twentieth century Puerto Rican identity. Editor(s): Flores, Juan; Pantojas-Garcia, Emilio. Series: Puerto Rican Studies. Num Pages: 336 pages, 8 illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KJP; GTB; JFSJ1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 6452 x 4522 x 23. Weight in Grams: 572.
In this book, Magali Roy-F\u00e9qui\u00e8re casts new light on the Generaci\u00f3n del Treinta, a group of Creole intellectuals who situated themselves as the voice of a new cultural nationalism in Puerto Rico. Through a feminist lens, she focuses on the interlocking themes of nationalism, gender, class, and race in the articulation of early twentieth century Puerto Rican identity. Roy-F\u00e9qui\u00e8re's discussion revolves around the affirmations and contradictions of the female intelligentsia, a cultural elite that sought to overcome American cultural hegemony by linking Puerto Rican identity to a white Spanish ethnic heritage, all the while negotiating their own precarious status within the male-dominated professional and intellectual spheres. The author also highlights the role of Margot Arce, a major essayist and intellectual who promoted this racially inflected discourse in her literary criticism. Arce's case parallels the thrust of the book in revealing the ideological alliances and tradeoffs made by female intellectuals in their pursuit of a unified sense of national identity in a racially heterogeneous and culturally diverse society.
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Temple University Press,U.S. United States
Number of pages
336
Condition
New
Series
Puerto Rican Studies
Number of Pages
336
Place of Publication
Philadelphia PA, United States
ISBN
9781592132317
SKU
V9781592132317
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About Roy-Fequiere, Magali. Ed(S): Flores, Juan; Pantojas-Garcia, Emilio
Magali Roy-Fequiere is Associate Professor of Gender and Women's Studies at Knox College.
Reviews for Women, Creole Identity
"An illuminating and sorely needed reconsideration of the most influential of modern Puerto Rican literary circles. Roy-Fequiere confronts the profound implications of the racist discourse of this group. Her most brilliant contribution lies in her careful unpacking of Puerto Rican conservative feminism, evident in the group's women intellectuals. Roy-Fequiere shows how gender discourse was complicitous with the racial discourse deployed by the Generacion del Treinta. Roy-Fequiere's critique will challenge and enrich our understanding of gender and the place of women in the history of Puerto Rican and Caribbean elite culture."-Licia Fiol-Matta, Lehman College, City University of New York and author of A Queer Mother for the Nation: The State and Gabriela Mistral "Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico is a superb book. It will fill a niche that has been neglected in the past. Roy-Fequiere looks at national identity as an intellectual construct formulated by a besieged generation and establishes an important paradigm of the ideology of intellectuals since and after the Generacion del Treinta. She connects literature with other sites of production of Puerto Rican national discourse, and shows very effectively how gender is subsumed in this nationalist discourse."-Marvette Perez, Curator, Latino History and Culture, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution "[An] extremely well-documented, in-depth study...a valuable contribution to Puerto Rican scholarship."-Multicultural Review "[S]o thorough and rigorous are her analyses, and so beautifully are they made to yield a rich, nuanced portrait of the period, that it is difficult to see how else this story could have been told. Roy-Fequiere's study raises the bar for all of us who are interested in the literary and intellectual history of the region."-The Journal of American Ethic History "Women, Creole Identity and Intellectual Life in Early Twentieth-Century Puerto Rico offers a superb analysis of how white, male, Creole intellectuals have tended to shun nonwhite and lower-class women from their nationalist discourse."-Latin American Research Review