Melissa Mercado

Puerto Rican Culture and Identity: As Seen in Rosario Ferre's the House on the Lagoon Melissa Mercado

The main purpose of this book is to look at and analyze how Puerto Rican author Rosario Ferré presents a unique Puerto Rican perspective through the female characters in her novel The House on the Lagoon, and how these female characters struggle with issues of race, gender, and class as it unfolds within Puerto Rican culture and history. This book examines, from a postcolonial and feminist perspective, how Ferré, constructs and maintains an indigenous Puerto Rican identity through an ironic, witty, yet serious narrative that employs a range of contemporary themes related to history, class, race, violence, and gender. The analysis presented in the book will help the general public understand and see the Puerto Rican culture from this particular author?s perspective. It will be most useful for those who want to know more about Puerto Rico or anyone interested in the issues presented in the book.