Race and Nation in Puerto Rican Folklore

RAFAEL OCASIO is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Spanish at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia. 

List of Illustrations

Introduction: Retention and Reinvention of Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Tales                             

1          Porto Rico as a Colonial Scientific Laboratory: Documenting Puerto Rican Oral Folklore

            Part I: The Island of Porto Rico in the U.S. Public Eye

            Part II: Identifying Porto Rican Folklore: The Compilation Process                                             

2          A Post-Spanish American War National Identity: Editing Puerto Rican Folktales in a Socio-Political Vacuum                      

            Part I: Arguing about La Raza and a Native Puerto Rican Culture

            Part II: Editing in a Socio-Political Vacuum: Personal and Professional Differences          

3          Jíbaros’ Authorship through Self-Literary Characterization 

            Part I: A Countryside-inspired Folklore through Jíbaros’ Authorship

            Part II: Juan Bobo and Other Native Picaresque Characters: Surviving the Rural Campo   

4          Telling a Story about Class and Ethnicity through Fairy Tales, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas

            Part I: Expressing Jíbaro Cultural Values through Native Oral Folklore

            Part II: El campo as a Site of Puerto Rican Identity in Cuentos de encantamiento, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas puertorriqueñas                                                                           

5          An (Un)colored Puerto Rican Culture: Unpublished Negro Fieldwork in Old Loíza

            Part I: Loíza as a Site of an Afro-Puerto Rican Culture

            Part II: Reconstructing A Post-Slavery Afro-Puerto Rican Popular Folklore: The Unpublished Field Notes                                

6          Tropicalizing the Puerto Rican Racial Past: The Quest of an Indian Area                           

Conclusion

Acknowledgments      

Notes

Bibliography                                                                                                                   

Index