Noticias de un país que desaparece: «raros» puertorriqueños de hoy

Abstract

Puerto Rican culture articulates itself as an anti-colonial resistance characterized by strategies of simulation, opacity and invisibility (disappearance) that enact an «out-of-place» in which an autonomous national and social subject is constantly reformulated. Recent expressions of «escrituras raras» (weird, strange, eccentric, difficult writing) assume difficulty of comprehension, fragmentation, and challenges to conventional modes of representation as so many out-of-places that allow a long anti-systemic and anti-colonial tradition to survive to this day.