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Santiago, Janine. "Weaving Fiction, History, Memory, and Orality in Four Puerto Rican Women Writers," American Studies, University at Buffalo, The State University of New York, August 2003.
This dissertation examines four types of writing to show the complex interweaving of fiction, history, memory, and orality in the writing of four Puerto Rican women writer’s. Through the work of Rosario Ferré, The House on the Lagoon; Ana Lydia Vega, Falsas crónicas del sur; Dominga de la Cruz, El pueblo no solo es testigo; and Judith Ortiz Cofer, Silent Dancing: Remembrances of a Puerto Rican Childhood, I explore the different modes of creation used by them to further question issues of contemporary Puerto Rican literature, culture, history, and identity. Ferré‘s text is a novel focusing on the relationship between fiction and history. Vega’s text is a rendering of collected oral traditions focusing on the relationship of memory, orality, and history. De la Cruz’ text is an oral history in the form of “testimonio,” focusing on the tension between context ideology and memory in formal oral history and brings subject and the committed intellectual mediator together. Cofer’s complex memoir is constructed by an educated woman who examines the relationship between personal memory and received oral tradition. The written material examined here questions the boundaries between fiction and reality, history and literature, the spoken word and writing, storytelling and identity. A thread common to all these texts is that silence equates forgetting; therefore silence contributes toward the erasure of all memory and existence. Hence, all of the texts examined attempt to defy silence and present pieces of Puerto Rico’s collective memory in their own different writing styles.
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