La creacion del mito del puertorriqueno docil en la literatura de Puerto Rico: La charca de Manuel Zeno Gandia. (Volumes I and II) (Spanish text)
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Title
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La creacion del mito del puertorriqueno docil en la literatura de Puerto Rico: La charca de Manuel Zeno Gandia. (Volumes I and II) (Spanish text)
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Identifier
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AAI9000730
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identifier
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9000730
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Creator
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Rivera-Valdes, Sonia.
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Contributor
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Adviser: Marlene Gottlieb
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Date
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1989
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Language
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English
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Publisher
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City University of New York.
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Subject
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Literature, Latin American | Literature, Caribbean
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Abstract
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This work traces the myth of the docile Puerto Rican in the literature of Puerto Rico from the XVIII century--the period in which the New World chroniclers began to describe the inhabitants of the island--to the end of XIX century, when it culminates in La charca, the novel by Manuel Zeno Gandia. The final objective of the work is to explain, through analysis of the texts, the ideological motives behind the creation of the myth.;The different ways in which Puerto Ricans are described in the literature are analized throughout the three parts that make up the work, from their first appearance in the literature up to 1894, when La charca was published. Before its publication, Manuel Zeno Gandia had declared the novel an accurate reflection of realism. It has been praised for its documentary value until recently. To this day, there are still those who defend the position that its reading is useful in learning about the late XIX century in Puerto Rican history. This assertion may be true, but only if historic reality is searched for in its oblique form within the novel; reading it for what it is--a fiction and comparing it with recently published texts on the island's history, in order to distinguish the real world from the world of literature.;The universe in which the characters of La charca develop contains many elements taken from historic society: geography, social and political conditions, and at times, the use of language. For this reason, it is easily taken for a reflection of real life. However, a study of the novel in light of present Puerto Rican historiography reveals a fictional society created by the author's ideology rather than extracted from social reality.
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Type
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dissertation
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Source
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PQT Legacy CUNY.xlsx
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degree
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Ph.D.
