Jorell A Meléndez-Badillo

The Lettered Barriada

Workers, Archival Power, and the Politics of Knowledge in Puerto Rico

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Produktbeschreibung

Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo tells the story of how a cluster of self-educated workers burst into Puerto Rico's world of letters in the aftermath of the 1898 US occupation, showing how they produced, negotiated, and deployed powerful discourses that eventually shaped Puerto Rico's national mythology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 280
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 540g
• ISBN-13: 9781478013853
• ISBN-10: 1478013850
• Artikelnr.: 61114329

Autorenporträt

Jorell A. Meléndez-Badillo

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments  ix
Introduction  1
1. Words as Bricks and Pages as Mortar: Building the Lettered Barriada  25
2. The Workshop Is Our Homeland: Global Communities, Local Exclusions  54
3. In the Margins of the Margin: Workingwomen and Their Struggle for
Remembrance  82
4. Becoming Politicians: The Socialist Party and the Politics of
Legitimation  108
5. Strike against Labor: The 1933 Student Mobilizations  134
6. Minor Theft: Consolidating the Barriada's Ideational Archive  156
Epilogue  180
Notes  191
Bibliography  221
Index  251