Puerto Rico -- Social life and customs

Overview "Heirlooms summons fragmented ancestral memory to illustrate the speaker's gendered relationships to land and place. In the first half of the collection, the speaker traverses a lineage of matriarchs and the delicate relationships between Puerto Rican women who survive displacement and diaspora. Through ritual and a multilingual incantation, the speaker honors the complexities of generational difference and struggle within an American setting. In the second half, the collection reflects upon...

Overview "This thesis examines the relationship between the history of Puerto Rico and the stories told about the Puerto Rican experience on stage. Specifically, the thesis unpacks the 1961 and 2021 movie musical adaptations of West Side Story and the 2021 movie musical adaption of In the Heights. These two blockbuster Broadway musicals have received international acclaim for their artistry, as well as criticism for their presentation of Hispanic and Latin culture. To facilitate a robust conversation...