"Remember that Puerto Rican literature always experienced a kind of shortcoming because there was a moral obligation to write realistically, to dramatize our struggle for independence—our colonial drama. If this was ignored, it became a faulty literature which should be punished with oblivion. Imaginative literature was practically disqualified…"
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Novelists from the United StatesEssayists from the United StatesShort story writers from the United StatesPeople from Puerto RicoHispanic Americans
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On the thematic constraints of Puerto Rican literature in “Luis Rafael Sánchez: Counterpoints" (Sargasso, 1984)
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