Dream Nation by María Acosta Cruz

Author:María Acosta Cruz [Cruz, María Acosta]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780813565460
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Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2014-03-19T00:00:00+00:00

Man in the Middle: Edgardo Rodríguez Juliá

Rodríguez Juliá’s arc is similar to Ferré’s. Like some writers of their generation (1970s), youthful enthusiasm led to pro-independence sentiments, which were then cast off in later life. For instance, Rodríguez Juliá speaks of his early affinity to the dream of independence while reminiscing about a visit paid as a teenager to the famous nationalist poet Juan Antonio Corretjer (see San Juan ciudad soñada 10–12). Nowadays Rodríguez Juliá has written much about his doubts concerning the feasibility of the political success of independence. In 2010, for example, he spoke openly of the defeat of independence and (somewhat ambivalently) espoused statehood and, trying have it both ways, bemoaned the dysfunction of the ELA while still declaring himself one of “aquéllos que proponemos la independencia” (those of us who propose independence) in an article pointedly titled “¿De qué país estamos hablando?” (What country are we talking about?). Nevertheless, in it he defends statehood and questions the existence of the Puerto Rican nation itself. In baroque fits of despair, he declares the game over because of the grim socioeconomic conditions on the island as well as the larger number of Puerto Ricans in the States than on the island. Rodríguez Juliá then endorses statehood as the only workable solution to the island’s identity problems and ends by stating that nationhood goes beyond territoriality. The entire passage reads:

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