"Travestido" para narrar: el dato histórico como argumento literario

Abstract

This article analyzes Salvador Brau's narrative strategy to transgress the limits of the historiographic discourse that was practiced in Puerto Rico in the late Nineteenth Century. The boundaries between history and literature were so defined that each one was about a specific type of priest. Brau uses literature to tell the life of a cleric that did not belong to historiography at that time. The term transvestite is used as a metaphor to describe the narrative strategy.