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Puerto Rico (United States)

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  • ChronicleEl gíbaroManuel A. Alonso · 1849not translated into EnglishWeddings, dances and cockfights of the peasants of Puerto Rico, in prose and verse, by a Romantic doctor from San Juan.LiteraturePublic domain
  • NovelThe PondLa charcaManuel Zeno Gandía · 1894The poverty of the coffee day labourers on the island's heights, under Spain, in a naturalist novel.Literature
  • TalePorto-Rican Folk-LoreJ. Alden Mason and Aurelio M. Espinosa · 1916The texts were gathered during a scientific survey of the island, conducted by the New York Academy of Sciences with the island government.Literature
  • NovelLa llamaradaEnrique A. Laguerre · 1935not translated into EnglishA newly graduated agronomist between the peons and the masters of the cane, in the Puerto Rico of the Great Depression.Literature
  • PoetryTuntún de pasa y griferíaLuis Palés Matos · 1937not translated into EnglishThe Afro-Antillean poetry of Puerto Rico, its rhythms, its dances and its black queens, in a founding collection of negrismo.Literature
  • PoetryRío Grande de LoízaJulia de Burgos · 1938In the thirties, the Nationalist Party demands the independence of Puerto Rico, a colony of the United States.Literature
  • TheatreThe OxcartLa carretaRené Marqués · 1953In the middle of the century, the exodus of Puerto Rican peasants to San Juan and then to New York transforms the island.Literature
  • Short storiesSpiksPedro Juan Soto · 1956Uprooted and poor Puerto Rican emigrants, who dream of their island in the streets of Harlem, in brief narratives.Literature
  • NovelMacho Camacho's BeatLa guaracha del Macho CamachoLuis Rafael Sánchez · 1976Puerto Rico, a state associated with the United States, sees its capital overrun by cars, radio and culture from the mainland.Literature
  • Short storiesThe Youngest DollPapeles de PandoraRosario Ferré · 1976Stories and poems against the roles imposed on the women of Puerto Rico, from the upper bourgeoisie to the common people.Literature
  • EssayPuerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country and Other EssaysEl país de cuatro pisos y otros ensayosJosé Luis González · 1980The successive layers that formed Puerto Rico, storey by storey, according to a writer in exile in Mexico.Literature