This dissertation explores the relationship between cultural production in Puerto Rico from 2005 to the present and the unfolding debt crisis on the island. I explore the relationship between colonialism as an institution, coloniality as a broader structuring of power, and the current debt crisis by examining cultural objects that speak to the relation between debt and colonialism. I argue that popular culture is a rich site where fraught discourses on coloniality and indebtedness are constantly articulated. I propose that literature and popular culture theorize on the conditions of indebtedness and coloniality in powerful and unique ways that counter dominant discourses on these phenomena. Debt will be considered as a simultaneously economic, social and moral relation that shapes not just life under the Puerto Rican crisis but social relationships broadly construed.

Creator

• Rivera Montes, Zorimar

DOI

• https://doi.org/10.21985/n2-z1vq-dq76

Subject

• Latin American literature

Language

• en

Alternate Identifier

• etdadmin_upload_879798
• http://dissertations.umi.com/northwestern:15945

Keyword

• debt
• decolonial
• popular culture
• Puerto Rico
• literature

Date created

• 2022-01-01

Resource type

• Dissertation

Rights statement

• In Copyright