Anemia and Vampires
Figures to Govern the Colony, Puerto Rico, 1880 to 1904
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2109466 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Benigno Trigo (State University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1999 |
| Volume | 41 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 104-123 |
| Publication date | 1999-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Comparative Studies in Society and History (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0010-4175 • E-ISSN: 1475-2999 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0010417599001887 |
| PMID | 20120555 |
| OpenAlex | W2037158591 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
In order to become the governing authority of the emerging Puerto Rican nation before the invasion of the United States in 1898, a group of letrados constructed the phantasm of a coherent and integrated national Self by excluding a phantasmagoric Other (such as the infirm Puerto Rican iíbaro).The reader will remember that, unlike the majority of Latin America, Puerto Rico was not an independent republic by the end of the nineteenth century but remained a Spanish colony. I borrow the term letrado from Angel Rama. He uses it to describe not only a class of cultured intellectuals but also a particular type of colonized consciousness that accepts the arbitrariness of the connection and, therefore, the implied rupture between signs and referents. A close examination of the works by members of this educated elite makes apparent the complexity of the dynamic between discourses of the Self and the Other that sustains this act of empowerment, as well as acts of empowerment similar to this one
Arbitrariness · Consciousness · Elite · Empowerment · Epistemology · Ethnology · Linguistics · Order (exchange) · Political science · Politics · Puerto rican · Sociology · The Republic · Cuban History and Society · Gender Studies · History · Latin American and Latino Studies · Latin American Literature Studies · Law · Philosophy
| Citations per year | 0.18 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2009 - 2026 (18) |
| Highly cited | No |