Kirwin R. Shaffer
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- April 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780252037641
- eISBN:
- 9780252094903
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- University of Illinois Press
- DOI:
- 10.5406/illinois/9780252037641.001.0001
- Subject:
- Sociology, Politics, Social Movements and Social Change
This book examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish colonial rule into the 1920s. Positioning Puerto Rico within the context of a regional anarchist network that ...
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This book examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish colonial rule into the 1920s. Positioning Puerto Rico within the context of a regional anarchist network that stretched from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Tampa, Florida, and New York City, the book illustrates how anarchists linked their struggle to the broader international anarchist struggles against religion, governments, and industrial capitalism. Their groups, plays, fiction, speeches, and press accounts—as well as the newspapers that they published—were central in helping to develop an anarchist vision for Puerto Ricans at a time when the island was a political no-man's-land, neither an official U.S. colony or state nor an independent country. Anarchism in Puerto Rico was a unique entity in the movement's history. The anarchists expressed their concerns and visions through their own brand of cultural politics, which was directed against Puerto Rican and U.S. colonial rulers in order to promote an antiauthoritarian spirit and countercultural struggle over how the island was being run and the future directions that it should pursue. Alongside this was anticlericalism against the Roman Catholic Church.Less
This book examines the radical Left in Puerto Rico from the final years of Spanish colonial rule into the 1920s. Positioning Puerto Rico within the context of a regional anarchist network that stretched from Puerto Rico and Cuba to Tampa, Florida, and New York City, the book illustrates how anarchists linked their struggle to the broader international anarchist struggles against religion, governments, and industrial capitalism. Their groups, plays, fiction, speeches, and press accounts—as well as the newspapers that they published—were central in helping to develop an anarchist vision for Puerto Ricans at a time when the island was a political no-man's-land, neither an official U.S. colony or state nor an independent country. Anarchism in Puerto Rico was a unique entity in the movement's history. The anarchists expressed their concerns and visions through their own brand of cultural politics, which was directed against Puerto Rican and U.S. colonial rulers in order to promote an antiauthoritarian spirit and countercultural struggle over how the island was being run and the future directions that it should pursue. Alongside this was anticlericalism against the Roman Catholic Church.
Dan Monroe
- Published in print:
- 2009
- Published Online:
- September 2011
- ISBN:
- 9780813033556
- eISBN:
- 9780813038353
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- University Press of Florida
- DOI:
- 10.5744/florida/9780813033556.003.0007
- Subject:
- Literature, 20th-century Literature and Modernism
This chapter extends the previous chapter's argument by integrating Hemingway's brief and not wholly persuasive conversion to the radical Left in the mid-1930s into his disdain for Roosevelt's New ...
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This chapter extends the previous chapter's argument by integrating Hemingway's brief and not wholly persuasive conversion to the radical Left in the mid-1930s into his disdain for Roosevelt's New Deal. During the Depression decade, critics, particularly those on the Left, savaged Hemingway for his alleged indifference to the social catastrophe proceeding around him. Yet Hemingway's work reflects an artist who, though primarily concerned with perfecting his craft and following his own vision, was not indifferent to events or necessarily reluctant to comment on them. His own traditional background and libertarian instincts prompted him to condemn the social welfare schemes of the New Deal, examples of which he witnessed in Key West.Less
This chapter extends the previous chapter's argument by integrating Hemingway's brief and not wholly persuasive conversion to the radical Left in the mid-1930s into his disdain for Roosevelt's New Deal. During the Depression decade, critics, particularly those on the Left, savaged Hemingway for his alleged indifference to the social catastrophe proceeding around him. Yet Hemingway's work reflects an artist who, though primarily concerned with perfecting his craft and following his own vision, was not indifferent to events or necessarily reluctant to comment on them. His own traditional background and libertarian instincts prompted him to condemn the social welfare schemes of the New Deal, examples of which he witnessed in Key West.
