Series: Aris & Phillips Hispanic Classics

Vejigantes: The Masked Mulatta is a translation of a very popular Puerto Rican play published by the island’s Father of Puerto Rican Theater, Francisco Arriví, in 1958. This work reveals the complexities of internalised self-hatred based on the natural hair texture of individuals of African ancestry on the island and cultural tensions that arise when the United States arrives to...

Sor Juana’s Respuesta a sor Filotea (1691) is one of her most widely read works and an established text in the history of women’s writing. Less frequently studied is the epistolary exchange to which it responds, particularly Juana’s Crisis sobre un sermón (or Carta atenagórica, 1690), her response to a sermon by the Portuguese Jesuit Antonio Vieira on Christ’s greatest...