Papers by Magali Roy-Fequiere
Hispanic American Historical Review, 2006
This book is a welcome addition to the emerging literature on the intersections of gender, race, ... more This book is a welcome addition to the emerging literature on the intersections of gender, race, and class in modern Latin America and the Caribbean. It effectively straddles the boundaries between history and literary criticism, and it consistently demonstrates how literature is a product of social relations, historical change, and conflict. Roy-Féquière shows how elite cultural and intellectual production in Puerto Rico throughout the 1920s and '30s informed the island's populist colonial political reforms of the midtwentieth century in a variety of sites-informal social networks, the university, intellectual journals, the popular press, and fiction writing. She also carefully traces the impact of twentieth-century popular culture and political mobilizations on Puerto Rican elites' anti-imperialism, nation building, and gender politics. This social class, Roy-Féquière reminds us, can only be understood in relation to those who challenged them in politics and cultural production. Thus, Julia de Burgos, Luisa Capetillo, Rafael Cortijo, and Pedro Albizu Campos haunt these pages as well. The result is a sweeping intellectual and cultural history of twentieth-century Puerto Rico. Roy-Féquière's broad argument, that the famous Generación del Treinta-a group of men and women who created a nationalist literature as well as the scholarship which exalted that prose and poetry to canonical status in Puerto Rico-was both patriarchal and racist, is not particularly surprising in the context of the new critical historiography of the past decade on the exclusionary role of race and gender in Latin American nation building. Her innovation on this count-and it is considerable-lies in her careful tracing of the subtleties and, in her words, "ambiguities" of how women and people of African descent continued to be excluded from the twentieth-century criollo concepts of nation and legitimate culture, even as they were acknowledged more than ever before. Roy-Féquière builds on the work of renowned historically minded cultural critics such as Juan Flores, Arcadio Quiñones, Julio Ramos, José Luis González, and Mary Louise Pratt to construct a simultaneously sensitive and critical portrait of an embattled bourgeoisie struggling with a host of "demons," both external and internal. Roy-Féquière also places women intellectuals and activists at the center of her retelling of the history of national Puerto Rican cultural production. University educators such as
Demeter Press eBooks, Apr 1, 2021
Caribbean Studies, 2006
S tudents and scholars of Hispanic American literature have reasons to rejoice at the publication... more S tudents and scholars of Hispanic American literature have reasons to rejoice at the publication of Miriam DeCosta-Willis's path-breaking anthology Daughters of the Diaspora. Simply put, this compilation of works by twenty Hispanophone women writers of African descent profoundly unsettles literary verities and impels us to rethink the field. And rightly so. For the first time in English translation, we find in a single volume a wealth of twentieth-century Afra-Hispanic poets, novelists and essayists
African American Review, 2015
Callaloo, 1994
Page 1. CONTESTED TERRITORY Puerto Rican Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in the Ear... more Page 1. CONTESTED TERRITORY Puerto Rican Women, Creole Identity, and Intellectual Life in the Early Twentieth Century By Magali Roy-Fequiere Legal matrimony is not only prostitution, it is generally a spec-ulation at the ...
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Papers by Magali Roy-Fequiere