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    612-822-4611

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The Forever Colony

The Forever Colony

Villanueva, Victor

Paperback

Biographies GeneralGeneral Latin American HistoryHistoriography

ISBN10: 1643174738
ISBN13: 9781643174730
Publisher: Parlor Press
Published: May 10 2024
Pages: 106
Weight: 0.37
Height: 0.25 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Working and Writing for Change

Series Editors: Steve Parks and Jessica Pauszek


Victor Villanueva tells stories of The Forever Colony through snippets of memoir, creative nonfiction, and fictional magical realism. Each chapter opens with a personal memory and a particular rhetorical trope that reinforces the ongoing colonialism symbolized by Puerto Rico. Memoir and trope are followed by tales told by the spirit Bushika or other narrators, tales with which to imagine Columbus and the Taíno, Ponce deLeón, and others sometimes forgotten in histories of Puerto Rico, like the legendary cacica/leader Yuíza, the pirate Miguel Enríquez, the revolutionaries of the 19th century, the journeys north from settler colony to the economic colony in the northern migrations to the U.S. during the mid-20th century. The stories would have us consider colonialism, racism, and political economy from the perspective of one descended from the world's oldest continuous colony.

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