Contra la corriente
Subtitle: seis microbiografías de los tiempos de España
By: [Fernando Picó].
Edition: [1. ed.].
Publisher: Ediciones Huracán
Published: 1995
Place of publication: [Río Piedras, P.R.]
Language: spa
Number of pages: 189
Subjects: Puerto Rican -- History.; Puerto Rico -- Biography.; Puerto Rico -- Biography.; Puerto Rico -- History.
Description: "Six narratives on the lives of 'historically unimportant' figures (an African-descent family from slavery to freedom, an alleged separatist landowner, a Jesuit priest, a powerful local strongman, an anti-imperialist journalist, a popular outlaw) are woven together through vital statistics, records of the acquisition of property, descriptions of political activity, and the like. This work is author's response to postmodernist allegation that historical texts are another form of fiction. Actually, unearthing and analyzing primary data, he argues, is a more productive undertaking than engaging in debates"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: value: De esclavos a jornaleros : historia de dos familias utuadeñas, 1790-1850; value: Don Cayetano Estrella y el Camuy de la Estrellada; value: Alberto Boysen, sacerdote jesuíta; value: Eusebio Pérez; value: Evaristo Izcoa Díaz; value: Contra los bandidos de levita : la vida de José Maldonado, Aguila Blanca.