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The Four-Storyed Country and Other Essays doesn't make my list of highly recommended books.

The Four-Storyed Country and Other Essays doesn't make my list of highly recommended books. Puerto Rico is an incredibly interesting example of imperialism right off the coast of our shore, and it's intricately entwined with the US because of its Commonwealth status. Gonzalez' strongest work in this collection by FAR is The Four-Storyed Country.

Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country and Other Essays, which was first published in Spanish in 1980. José Luis González wrote The Four-Storeyed Country in response to a conversation of Puerto Ricans and their relationship with independence. 3 Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country. Additionally,The Four Storeyed Country was also written to answer the question posed by one of his students in 1979 during one of his Latin American Studies seminars, "How do you think the Puerto Rican culture has been affected by the.

This work dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. It claims that the national identity is mainly Mestizo with a significant contribution from Africa, and that Puerto Ricans must acknowledge that their culture is primarily Caribbean.

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Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country and Other Essays, trans

In: José Luis González 1993, Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country and Other Essays, trans. Princeton: Markus Wiener: vii-xvii. In: Lambda Book Report 5, 3: 1, 6-7. Hennessy, Alistair 1978 The Frontier in Latin American History. London: Edward Ar- nold. Kiran Temple University Fox School of Business ‘17, Course Hero Intern.

The fact is that Puerto Rico has lived under norms determined by others. Its an excellent source to know other side of the Puerto Rican history. Puerto Rico: The Four-Storeyed Country and Other Essays. Provocative, extremely well documented, and innovative in many of its approaches. The author places himself and Puerto Rican identity in the political and legal struggle over the status of the island. This is a brilliant and expansive book.

González, José Luis. Princeton: Markus Wiener Publishing, 1993. Irizarry, Guillermo B. José Luis González : el intelectual nómada. Ediciones Callejón, 2006. a b "Jose Luis González. González, José Luis. Ballad of Another Time. Council Oak Books/Hecate, with the University of Tulsa, 1987.

José Luis González was a Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, short story writer, university professor .

José Luis González was a Puerto Rican essayist, novelist, short story writer, university professor, and journalist wh. .He is considered to be one of the most important Puerto Rican authors of the 20th century, particularly for his book

Gonzalez dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history

Gonzalez dismantles the myth of a dominant Spanish and racially white national culture in Puerto Rican history. He claims that the national identity is primarily Mestizo with a significant contribution from Africa. Gonzalez calls the African slaves and Mestizo peasantry the first Puerto Ricans because they were the first inhabitants who had to make the island their home.

Puerto Rico: The Four Storeyed Country and Other Essays, by José Luis González (translated by Gerald Guinness), is a compel-. ling treatise on the importance of African and mestizo peoples in the development of Puerto Rican culture. Two Wings of the Same Dove

Puerto Rico: The Four Storeyed Country and Other Essays, by José Luis González (translated by Gerald Guinness), is a compel-. Two Wings of the Same Dove. While the bulk of Spain's South American colonies rose up under the leadership of re-. volutionary emancipator Simón Bolívar in the 1820s, Puerto Rico and Cuba's conservative. Creole landowners elected to stay on the sidelines. But, as economic conditions worsened.