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Abstract

A writer reflects with humor on the uneasy relationship and blurry frontiers between fiction and history. A brief survey of the Nineteen-fifties, sixties, and seventies in Puerto Rico highlights the ideological myths of colonial education under the Cold War mindset. The persistent literary obsession with the discovery of a politically censored past is simultaneously explored. Through lively anecdotes set before and after the publication of her book Falsas crónicas del sur, the author tackles the complex and sometimes paradoxical processes of creation and reception of historical fiction.