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Rosario Ferré - Translated by Suzanne Hintz and Benigno Trigo

Memoir is Rosario Ferré’s account of her life both as a writer and as a member of a family at the center of the economic and political history of Puerto Rico during the American Century, one hundred years of territorial “non-incorporation” into the United States. The autobiography tells the story of Ferré’s transformation from the daughter of a privileged family into a celebrated novelist, poet, and essayist concerned with the welfare of Puerto Ricans, and with the difficulties of being a woman in Puerto Rican society. It is a snapshot of twentieth-century Puerto Rico through the lens of a writer profoundly aware of her social position. It is a picture taken from the perspective of a keen observer of the local history of the island, and of the history of the United States. Included are many photographs that connect Ferré’s life with the story of her writing career.

University Press Copublishing Division / Bucknell University Press

Pages: 132 • Trim: 5 x 8

978-1-61148-662-9 • Paperback • October 2015 • $54.99 • (£42.00)

978-1-61148-663-6 • eBook • October 2015 • $52.00 • (£40.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors, Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures, Biography & Autobiography / Women, Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American

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Summary

Memoir is Rosario Ferré’s account of her life both as a writer and as a member of a family at the center of the economic and political history of Puerto Rico during the American Century, one hundred years of territorial “non-incorporation” into the United States. The autobiography tells the story of Ferré’s transformation from the daughter of a privileged family into a celebrated novelist, poet, and essayist concerned with the welfare of Puerto Ricans, and with the difficulties of being a woman in Puerto Rican society. It is a snapshot of twentieth-century Puerto Rico through the lens of a writer profoundly aware of her social position. It is a picture taken from the perspective of a keen observer of the local history of the island, and of the history of the United States. Included are many photographs that connect Ferré’s life with the story of her writing career.

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University Press Copublishing Division / Bucknell University Press

Pages: 132 • Trim: 5 x 8

978-1-61148-662-9 • Paperback • October 2015 • $54.99 • (£42.00)

978-1-61148-663-6 • eBook • October 2015 • $52.00 • (£40.00)

Subjects: Literary Criticism / Women Authors, Biography & Autobiography / Literary Figures, Biography & Autobiography / Women, Literary Criticism / Caribbean & Latin American

Author

Benigno Trigo is the son of the writer and a professor of Spanish American Literature at Vanderbilt University.
Suzanne Hintz is the author of a scholarly book and of numerous articles about the works of Rosario Ferré. She served as the dean of academic affairs at the Art Institute of Washington DC.

Table of Contents

Contents

Prologue
The Word Became Flesh
How I Began to Write
Epilogue
Upon Entering the Academy

Reviews

Taken together, the book’s various sections and its many black-and-white photographs offer an intimate... look into the mind, life, and work of one of the hispanophone Caribbean’s most notable—and most notably feminist—writers.
— SX Salon: a small axe literary platform

Memoir is an indispensable book. It is a candid and thoughtful conversation with one of Puerto Rico’s greatest literary voices, a book filled with wry humor and tenderness in which Ferré’s rebellious spirit still shines through.”
— Aníbal González, Yale University

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