CULTURAL AND NATURAL ROOTS OF PUERTO RICAN MESTIZAJE IN ROSARIO FERRÉ’S THE HOUSE ON THE LAGOON.
The paper explores the conversational orchestration of family anecdotes as a dominant experimental narrative strategy underlying Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferré’s historical novel, The House on the Lagoon. The study reads Ferré’s narrative through Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of the dialogic natur...
| Publicado en: | Eger Journal of English Studies Vol. 20; pp. 35 - 44 |
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Eszterhazy Karoly College, Department of English Studies
2020
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| Sumario: | The paper explores the conversational orchestration of family anecdotes as a dominant experimental narrative strategy underlying Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferré’s historical novel, The House on the Lagoon. The study reads Ferré’s narrative through Mikhail Bakhtin’s philosophy of the dialogic nature of language to highlight the interplay between environmental and cultural images of hybridity. The close reading of this representative piece of US Caribbean literature elucidates how Ferré utilizes the dialogic form to contest the Puerto Rican cultural and national politics that tend to suppress and silence the non- white (black and indigenous) components of Puerto Rican identity. |
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