RAFAEL OCASIO is the Charles A. Dana Professor of Spanish at Agnes Scott College in Atlanta, Georgia.

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Introduction: Retention and Reinvention of Puerto Rican Oral Folklore Tales

1 Porto Rico as a Colonial Scientific Laboratory: Documenting Puerto Rican Oral Folklore

Part I: The Island of Porto Rico in the U.S. Public Eye

Part II: Identifying Porto Rican Folklore: The Compilation Process

2 A Post-Spanish American War National Identity: Editing Puerto Rican Folktales in a Socio-Political Vacuum

Part I: Arguing about La Raza and a Native Puerto Rican Culture

Part II: Editing in a Socio-Political Vacuum: Personal and Professional Differences

3 Jíbaros' Authorship through Self-Literary Characterization

Part I: A Countryside-inspired Folklore through Jíbaros' Authorship

Part II: Juan Bobo and Other Native Picaresque Characters: Surviving the Rural Campo

4 Telling a Story about Class and Ethnicity through Fairy Tales, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas

Part I: Expressing Jíbaro Cultural Values through Native Oral Folklore

Part II: El campo as a Site of Puerto Rican Identity in Cuentos de encantamiento, Cuentos puertorriqueños and Leyendas puertorriqueñas

5 An (Un)colored Puerto Rican Culture: Unpublished Negro Fieldwork in Old Loíza

Part I: Loíza as a Site of an Afro-Puerto Rican Culture

Part II: Reconstructing A Post-Slavery Afro-Puerto Rican Popular Folklore: The Unpublished Field Notes

6 Tropicalizing the Puerto Rican Racial Past: The Quest of an Indian Area

Conclusion

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index