{"product_id":"puerto-rican-cultural-identity-and-the-work-of-luis-rafael-sanchez-9780807892725","title":"Puerto Rican Cultural Identity and the Work of Luis Rafael Sánchez","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): John Dimitri Perivolaris\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Unc Department of Romance Studies\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Unc Department of Romance Studies\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Caribbean \u0026amp; Latin American\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book undertakes the most comprehensive and theoretically rigorous examination to date of Luis Rafael S�nchez's work in the context of cultural politics in Puerto Rico, and of the international and regional dimensions of S�nchez's work in relation to the unique status of Puerto Rico as a commonwealth and colony. It explores S�nchez's ambivalent position as a member of an intellectual elite, a spokesman for \u003ci\u003eel pueblo\u003c\/i\u003e, and a Puerto Rican mulatto whose working-class background allows him to highlight unprecedented possibilities for political agency within popular and mass culture.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThrough analyses of S�nchez's theater, prose, and essays, John Perivolaris examines continuing struggles to define Puerto Rican cultural identity. His detailed readings illuminate S�nchez's ironically humorous deployment of traditionally conservative paradigms of national and individual identity in his postcolonial critique of racialization, gender, sexuality, and Hispanism in the colony. This study fills a long-standing need for an introduction to the work of a major Caribbean and Latin American writer.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Unc Department of Romance Studies","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47614397972631,"sku":"9780807892725","price":3139.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780807892725.webp?v=1775093317","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/puerto-rican-cultural-identity-and-the-work-of-luis-rafael-sanchez-9780807892725","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}